Staff SRE Engineer (Go on GCP) — Remote Ireland + Equity

pantheon; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days of holiday

Private medical and dental coverage

Life and critical illness insurance

Workplace pension scheme

Top-of-line equipment

LinkedIn Learning / learning budget

Wellness allowance

Job summary

Pantheon is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to establish Site Reliability Engineering as a first-class discipline within its internal platform. You will design reusable service templates, observability standards, and infrastructure patterns that empower dozens of engineering teams to ship safely and quickly on a Go-based stack on Google Cloud.

This senior hands-on role combines platform engineering with SRE ownership, mentoring engineers and driving reliability improvements while advancing

Qualifications

• 8+ years building and operating production systems with significant time in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Demonstrated track record implementing SRE practices including SLO frameworks, incident management, on-call culture, and measurable reliability gains.
• Proficiency in Go (1.21+) with Python as a secondary language.
• Deep practical experience with GCP (Cloud Run, GKE, IAM, networking, managed services) or comparable clouds.
• Hands-on Terraform experience building reusable modules and operational Kubernetes experience on GKE or equivalent.
• Production experience with Grafana, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry, paired with IAP, IAM, and VPC work inside compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define and roll out SLO and SLI frameworks, incident response practices, and reliability standards across the platform group.
• Set the observability baseline using Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry tracing, and structured logging so every team has actionable signals.
• Build and maintain paved-path infrastructure: Go APIs, CLIs, Cloud Run services, GKE workloads, and Terraform modules with reliability built in from day one.
• Lead migrations toward GCP-native managed services such as Secret Manager, Cloud SQL, and standardized CI pipelines on GitHub Actions and Cloud Build.
• Apply security-first thinking to networking and identity (IAP, IAM, VPC design) and support compliance posture for SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and adjacent frameworks.
• Mentor engineers, run full DevOps lifecycle work for the systems built, and participate in on-call after a typical three to six month ramp.

Skills

Go

Python

GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Observability

IAP

IAM

VPC

Tools

Cloud Run

GKE

Cloud Build

GitHub Actions

Job description

Pantheon is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to establish Site Reliability Engineering as a first-class discipline within its internal platform. You will design reusable service templates, observability standards, and infrastructure patterns that empower dozens of engineering teams to ship safely and quickly on a Go-based stack on Google Cloud.

This senior hands-on role combines platform engineering with SRE ownership, mentoring engineers and driving reliability improvements while advancing