Staff Site Reliability Engineer

horizon3ai; USA; Remote; USD 200.000 - 270.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stock options

Fully remote

Medical and dental insurance

Generous vacation & parental leave

Travel up to 10%

Zusammenfassung

horizon3ai is seeking a staff-level Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to set reliability strategy and standards across a remote cybersecurity platform. The role owns the SRE operating model and drives cross-functional reliability initiatives for infrastructure, product, service, and security teams supporting a production-safe autonomous pentest platform.

You will define observability standards, SLIs/SLOs, and incident programs, participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, and shape the growth path of

Qualifikationen

• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems in production.
• Deep knowledge of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, and production operations.
• Proven ability to define SLIs, SLOs, alerts, and service ownership models.
• Backend automation work that reduces toil and improves operations.

Aufgaben

• Own and evolve the engineering-wide SRE strategy, operating model, and reliability standards.
• Lead cross-functional alignment to improve reliability, observability, and on-call readiness.
• Establish organization-wide approaches to service ownership, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Define observability standards, dashboards, alerts, runbooks, and escalation paths.
• Drive end-to-end reliability initiatives across multiple teams.
• Improve incident management, on-call health, and post-incident learning.
• Shape the SRE function's direction and growth trajectory.
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation with a sustainable staffing model.

Kenntnisse

Distributed systems

Reliability engineering

Observability

Incident management

SRE leadership

Tools

Datadog

New Relic

Grafana

Python

Terraform

AWS

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Jobbeschreibung

Role overview

This staff-level SRE position is foundational to setting engineering-wide reliability strategy and standards at a remote cybersecurity company. The role owns the SRE operating model, drives cross-functional reliability initiatives, and shapes technical direction across infrastructure, product, service, and security teams supporting a production-safe autonomous pentest platform.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the engineering-wide SRE strategy, operating model, and reliability standards in alignment with customer impact and business priorities
• Lead cross-functional alignment across infrastructure, product, security, and business stakeholders to improve reliability, observability, incident response, and operational readiness
• Establish organization-wide approaches to service ownership, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical customer paths
• Define observability standards and set the bar for dashboards, actionable alerting, runbooks, and escalation paths
• Drive end-to-end complex reliability initiatives spanning multiple teams
• Raise the engineering-wide standard for incident management, incident command, on-call health, and post-incident learning
• Shape the technical direction, operating model, and growth path of the SRE function
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation and help design a sustainable, appropriately staffed on-call model

Requirements

• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems in production
• Deep knowledge of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, and production operations, with a track record of turning that knowledge into adopted standards
• Demonstrated experience establishing SLIs, SLOs, actionable alerts, observability, and service ownership models
• Backend experience building automation that reduces toil, strengthens safeguards, and improves operational efficiency
• Experience leading high-severity incidents and improving incident response programs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical designs, runbooks, postmortems, and operational documentation
• Proficiency with Python and Terraform, or equivalent infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling
• Hands-on experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, or Grafana
• Production experience operating services on AWS and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or GitOps workflows

Benefits and work setup

• Base salary range of $199,750 to $270,000 annually, depending on location, qualifications, experience, and relevant skills
• Eligibility for an equity package in the form of stock options for all full-time roles
• Fully remote with up to 10% travel for team off-sites and in-person project kick-offs
• Comprehensive benefits including medical and dental insurance for the employee and family, flexible vacation policy, and generous parental leave