Staff SRE: Scale, Observability & Automation Leader

Replit; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & equity

401(k) matching

Health, dental, vision, life

Disability insurance

Parental, medical, caregiver leave

Flexible time off

Commuter benefits

Wellness stipend

Autonomous work environment

Office setup reimbursement

Quarterly team gatherings

Office amenities

Job summary

Replit, a leading software creation platform, is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, scale, and performance of our global infrastructure. You will bridge development and operations, architect observability, and drive automation across Kubernetes, cloud-native stacks, and CI/CD pipelines.

You will lead incident management, mentor engineers, and design robust, self-healing systems while maintaining high availability for millions of developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of SRE/DevOps related experience.
• Strong programming in Python or Go.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and SOA concepts.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native tech.
• Proven monitoring/observability design and implementation.
• IaC experience (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Excellent communication and mentorship skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect and implement comprehensive observability and dashboards.
• Define and track SLOs/SLIs with cross-functional teams.
• Lead incident management and post-mortems.
• Automate infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
• Optimize performance of large-scale Kubernetes deployments.
• Debug and harden distributed systems across stack.
• Provide staff-level design reviews and mentorship.

Skills

Python/Go

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident management

IaC Terraform/Pulumi

Communication

Mentoring

Debugging

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Job description

Replit, a leading software creation platform, is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to ensure reliability, scale, and performance of our global infrastructure. You will bridge development and operations, architect observability, and drive automation across Kubernetes, cloud-native stacks, and CI/CD pipelines.

You will lead incident management, mentor engineers, and design robust, self-healing systems while maintaining high availability for millions of developers worldwide.