SRE / Platform Engineer

ErthDev; United States; Remote; USD 1,700 - 2,400; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid annual leave

Learning and certification support

Conference opportunities

Equipment and internet stipend

Medical insurance assistance

Flexible hours

Job summary

ErthDev is seeking a Part-time Site Reliability Engineer to improve reliability, observability, and the engineering platform behind production systems. You will automate deployment and recovery workflows, strengthen incident response, and collaborate with DevOps, backend, and product teams to ensure production readiness.

The role emphasizes learning-focused incident reviews, runbook documentation, and capacity planning while supporting a flexible, globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating production systems.
• Strong Linux, networking, and cloud fundamentals.
• Experience with observability tooling and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with containers and deployment automation.
• Able to manage incidents and communicate under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Improve reliability targets and incident response practices.
• Build and maintain platform tools for engineering teams.
• Strengthen observability with metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Automate recurring operational tasks in deployment and recovery workflows.
• Collaborate with DevOps, backend, and product teams for production readiness.
• Lead incident reviews and contribute to capacity and resilience planning.

Skills

Production systems

Linux

Networking

Cloud fundamentals

Observability tooling

Incident management

Automation

Deployment automation

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Prometheus/Grafana

OpenTelemetry

AWS

Job description

Role overview

Improve the reliability, observability, and engineering platforms behind production systems. You will help teams release and operate services more safely by strengthening operational practices, automating repetitive work, and making service health and recovery measurable.

Responsibilities

• Improve service reliability targets and incident response practices.
• Build and maintain platform tools that support engineering teams.
• Strengthen observability through useful metrics, logs, traces, and alerts.
• Automate recurring operational tasks in deployment and recovery workflows.
• Work with DevOps, backend, and product teams to assess production readiness.
• Lead learning-focused incident reviews, document runbooks, and contribute to capacity, performance, and resilience planning.

Requirements

• Strong experience operating production systems.
• Solid Linux, networking, and cloud fundamentals.
• Experience with observability tooling and operational troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with containers and deployment automation.
• Ability to manage incidents, communicate clearly under pressure, and automate repetitive work.
• Interest in improving the developer experience through reliable platforms and consistent environments.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus or Grafana, OpenTelemetry, AWS, and on-call practices.

Benefits and work setup

Part-time, fully remote work from Egypt, with flexible hours and collaboration overlap. Cairo office access is available when needed. Listed support includes paid annual and sick leave, performance bonuses, annual salary reviews, learning and certification support, conference opportunities, equipment and internet support, medical insurance, mentorship, and work across projects in different industries.