Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

Ladders; United States; Remote; USD 198,000 - 368,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Mental health support

401(k) matching

Virtual care services

Legal services

Learning & development

Job summary

Ladders is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability and operability of our cloud services for enterprise customers. This remote US role blends software engineering with infrastructure automation, observability, and cross-functional influence to raise service quality.

You will partner with product and engineering teams, design resilient distributed systems, and lead incident response improvements while mentoring senior engineers.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience for cloud products.
• Proficiency in backend languages such as C#, Java, Go, or TypeScript/Node.js.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and IaC tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD tools and practices.
• Strong observability expertise and experience with metrics and SLOs.
• Ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence architecture.

Responsibilities

• Write high-quality, production-grade code.
• Design distributed, multi-region services with a focus on failure modes.
• Collaborate with product teams to establish and align on reliability standards.
• Automate system instrumentation for effective detection and response.
• Lead blameless post-incident reviews and implement systemic fixes.
• Mentor and elevate the skill set of senior engineers.

Skills

Leadership

Observability

Distributed systems

Incident response

Cloud software engineering

Mentorship

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Ladders is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability and operability of our cloud services for enterprise customers. This remote US role blends software engineering with infrastructure automation, observability, and cross-functional influence to raise service quality.

You will partner with product and engineering teams, design resilient distributed systems, and lead incident response improvements while mentoring senior engineers.