Senior Site Reliability Engineer

ASAPP; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation with stock options

Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance

401k matching

Fitness and wellness stipend

Mental well-being benefits

3 weeks paid time off plus unlimited sick leave

Job summary

ASAPP is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer in New York City to enhance the reliability of our infrastructure and products. This position emphasizes automation and collaboration with product teams to build robust systems.

The ideal candidate brings over 10 years of experience, a solid understanding of distributed systems, and strong skills in AWS, Kubernetes, and coding. Competitive benefits and compensation package offered.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in software production at scale.
• Proficient in AWS services and container management.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product engineering teams on architecture.
• Automate infrastructure configuration and monitoring.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and design resolutions.

Skills

Automation

Distributed systems architecture

Networking solutions

Kubernetes

AWS services

Terraform

Python

Go

Education

BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Job description

At ASAPP, our mission is simple: deliver the best AI-powered customer experience—faster than anyone else. To achieve that, we’re guided by principles that shape how we think, build, and execute. We value customer obsession, purposeful speed, ownership, and a relentless focus on outcomes. We work in tight, skilled teams, prioritize clarity over complexity, and continuously evolve through curiosity, data, and craftsmanship. We’re seeking technologists and problem solvers who thrive in fast‑paced environments, love collaborating with great talent, and approach every day like it’s Day 1.

We're a globally diverse team with hubs in New York City, Mountain View, Latin America, and India—embracing both hybrid and remote work to bring the best minds together, wherever they are. If you're driven by continuous learning, rapid pivots, and the challenges of building in a high‑growth startup, we’d love to talk. This is more than a job—it’s a journey.

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for the overall performance and reliability of ASAPP's infrastructure and products. The team owns the entire infrastructure stacks. SREs design and implement the tools that automate building reliable and performant systems. We emphasize building tools over manual processes. We implement, not administer. We’re obsessed with automation, not repetition. Our job is to focus on building reliable infrastructure and tools for our product teams so that they can solve customer problems and deliver new features, not reinvent platforms.

What you’ll do

• Work with product engineering teams on service architecture and implementation.
• Deliver infrastructure configuration as code and automate everything.
• Direct and implement monitoring and alerting systems to support rapid problem diagnosis and help reduce MTTR.
• Perform root‑cause analysis and design and deliver resolutions.
• Ownership of our Kubernetes / AWS infrastructure to support our product engineers.
• Design secure and performant networking infrastructure solutions in our production systems.
• Security and compliance: deep integration of zero‑trust, mTLS and compliance into the ASAPP platform.

What you’ll need

• +10 years of relevant experience bringing software to production at high scale.
• Understanding of distributed systems architecture and failure scenarios.
• Obsession with automation and instrumentation.
• Knowledge of AWS services, containers and container management frameworks.
• Familiarity with message‑bus based systems and database system architectures.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Python and/or Go.
• Participation in on‑call rotation, triaging and addressing production issues.
• Excellent communication skills.

What we’d like to see

• BS or MS degree in the Computer Science field, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• Experience in product‑oriented environments.
• Scalable distributed applications experience.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation with stock options
• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental insurance
• 401k matching
• Fitness and wellness stipend
• Mobile phone reimbursement
• Mental well‑being benefits
• Professional learning and development stipendParental leave, including adoptive and foster parents
• 3 weeks paid time off (increases with tenure) and unlimited sick leave

$200,000 - $220,000 a year

Compensation is a combination of salary and performance bonus

Separately, you will also receive an equity grant

ASAPP is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status. If you have a disability and need assistance with our employment application process, please email us at [email protected] to obtain assistance.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.