Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Altium; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Altium is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our cloud platforms. You will automate operations, improve observability, and work with development teams to build scalable applications in a global SaaS environment.

You will lead incidents, capacity planning, and deployment automation while promoting reliability best practices across engineering teams in San Diego and adjacent locations.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in large-scale environment.
• 3+ years professional experience in software development.
• Software development experience, ideally .NET.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice and HA architecture.
• Observability experience with tools like NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL.
• Experience with Kubernetes production clusters, AWS, IOC.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, ArgoCD).
• Knowledge of IaaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Basic networking knowledge.
• Experience with relational databases (MySQL, Postgres) is a plus.
• Must be a US permanent resident (Citizen or Green Card).

Responsibilities

• Understand how the Altium Cloud Platform works.
• Improve observability: logging, monitoring, and APM for reliability.
• Develop reliability frameworks across regions and environments.
• Educate engineering teams on reliability best practices.
• Contribute to incident response and post-incident analysis.
• Participate in system design, platform management, and capacity planning.
• Collaborate with engineering to improve product stability and manageability.
• Drive automation initiatives, IaC, and deployment streamlining.
• Champion SOO principles for clear service ownership.
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive post-incident improvements.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Software development

.NET development

SDLC & HA

Observability tools

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD tools

Terraform

Ansible

Networking basics

Relational databases

US permanent resident

Tools

NewRelic

ELK

Grafana

PagerDuty

OTEL

Jenkins

Gitlab

GitHub

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer ensures the reliability, availability, and performance of large-scale software systems through a blend of software engineering and systems administration. Key responsibilities involve automating operational tasks, improving observability, and contributing to incident management, while also collaborating with development and technology teams to build more reliable and scalable applications.

Join Altium as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability and performance of the Altium Cloud Platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding how an Altium Cloud Platform works

• Pioneer improvements in observability, including logging, monitoring, and application performance management (APM), ensuring system reliability and proactive issue detection.

• Develop and implement reliability frameworks and patterns that standardize and elevate the resilience of our SaaS products across multiple regions and environments.

• Cultivate a shared responsibility model where the SRE team collaborates with and educates engineering teams on reliability best practices.

• Contribute to incident response and management, ensuring rapid resolution, clear stakeholder communication, and post-incident analysis for continuous improvement.

• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, infrastructure upgrades and capacity planning.

• Partner closely with engineering and development teams to enhance product stability, observability, and manageability through best practices in reliability engineering.

• Partner closely with DevOps/Operations, drive automation initiatives, promote Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and streamline deployment processes to improve operational efficiency and scalability.

• Champion Service-Oriented Organization (SOO) principles to ensure accountability and clarity in service ownership.

• Participate in on-call rotation and drive operational improvements after incidents.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, DevOps or related role in a large-scale environment

• 3+ years professional experience in software development

• Software development experience (ideally working with and as a .NET developer)

• Strong understanding of SDLC, microservice and HA architecture

• Observability - NewRelic, ELK, Grafana, PagerDuty, OTEL or similar

• Experience with Kubernetes clusters in production setting, AWS, IOC

• Experience with operational tasks

• Knowledge of CI-CD tooling Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, ArgoCD or similar

• Knowledge of IaaC Terraform, Ansible

• Basic knowledge of networking fundamentals

• Experience with relational databases (mysql, postgres) as a plus

• MUST be a US permanent resident (Citizen or Green Card)

Additional Information

Altium Limited, a part of the Renesas Group and headquartered in San Diego, California, is a global software company accelerating the pace of electronics innovation. We are redefining electronic product creation in a software-defined world with our industry-first cloud-based platform that unites every stakeholder and phase of electronics development.

From startups to world’s technology giants, our digital platforms give more power to PCB designers, supply chain, and manufacturing, letting them collaborate as never before. At Altium, our teams are empowered to innovate, collaborate globally, and help create the future of electronics development.

We believe in rewarding our employees with a competitive benefits package alongside their salary. More information will be provided during the hiring process.

1. Department Engineering

2. Remote No

3. Location La Jolla