Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Scale AI-Driven Cloud

Ethos Life; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 156,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Ethos is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our production systems in the US. You will shape the roadmap for infrastructure, platform tooling, and observability, partnering with product teams to promote reliability across the org.

You will mentor SREs across US and Bangalore, drive capacity planning and incident response, and own IAM‑level governance for AI tooling while aligning with security and FinOps goals.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of full-time software engineering experience in SRE, Infrastructure, Platform, DevOps, or Backend SWE.
• Staff-Level impact: led multi-team infrastructure or reliability initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Set multi-quarter reliability and platform tooling strategy in partnership with SRE and engineering leadership.
• Lead cross-cutting infrastructure design with ensuring resilience and long-term maintainability.
• Influence product teams to adopt reliability best practices and advise on production readiness.
• Grow SRE skills across US and Bangalore teams through design reviews, pairing, and interviews.
• Establish SLIs/SLOs framework and instrument monitoring and error budgets.
• Serve as senior technical leader during high-severity incidents and drive blameless post-mortems.
• Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery, and failure-mode testing.
• Evolve monitoring and alerting strategy to detect failures early and sustain on-call.
• Design, build, and operate AWS cloud infrastructure using IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD, Atlantis).
• Architect AI gateways for model routing with access controls and audit trails.
• Ensure security and regulatory compliance via automated scanning and data guardrails.
• Lead FinOps initiatives to optimize cloud spend and cost attribution.
• Meter LLm usage and implement cost-aware routing for models.
• Establish cost metrics and design architectures that balance performance and cost.
• Build internal tools, CI/CD pipelines, and self-service platforms for engineering.
• Identify toil sources and automate them.

Skills

Golang

Python

TypeScript

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Ethos is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to lead the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our production systems in the US. You will shape the roadmap for infrastructure, platform tooling, and observability, partnering with product teams to promote reliability across the org.

You will mentor SREs across US and Bangalore, drive capacity planning and incident response, and own IAM‑level governance for AI tooling while aligning with security and FinOps goals.