Senior SRE or DevOps Engineer

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About the Team

About the Role

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and help us build scale and maintain robust systems that enable high availability reliability and performance across our infrastructure. Your work will have a direct impact on the product and our customers

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or a related field (such as Systems Administration Monitoring Alerting or Infrastructure) designing and implementing resilient infrastructure and proactively identifying and mitigating potential issues.

• Hands-on experience with Docker Kubernetes and public cloud platforms (AWS GCP).

• Strong experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. Jenkins) and familiarity with the CNCF Continuous Integration & Delivery ecosystem ().

• Proficiency in Bash and Python scripting for automation and tooling.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of Design for Maintainability principles and their application in scalable system architectures.

• Proven experience in designing and implementing process automations using advanced scripting and tooling to improve reliability and efficiency.

• Strong knowledge of Reliability Analysis and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) methodologies to identify and address critical failure modes.

• Solid grasp of Reliability Engineering principles to drive system availability and performance improvements.

• Experience defining monitoring and alerting on Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) and related metrics.

• Develop and maintain SRE tooling using strong scripting skills primarily with Bash. Basic knowledge of Python is required; Golang experience is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with Development Operations and Security teams to drive reliability-focused initiatives.

• Excellent technical documentation skills with experience creating detailed architectural and operational documentation.

• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex distributed systems leveraging observability and diagnostics tools.

• You communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing.

• You thrive in a fast-paced global environment collaborating with teams across the USA and India.

• You enjoy solving complex problems and thinking critically to improve reliability and performance.

• You take ownership of monitoring alerting and automation ensuring systems run smoothly.

• You work seamlessly with engineering operations and product teams to drive continuous improvement.

• You understand SLOs observability and incident response principles and apply them in practice.

Our Approach to Flexible Work

With Flex Work were combining the best of both worlds: in-person time and remote. Our approach enables our teams to deepen connections maintain a strong community and do their best work. We know that flexibility can take shape in many ways so rather than a number of required days in-office each week we simply spend at least half (50%) of our time each quarter in the office or in the field with our customers prospects and partners (depending on role). This means youll have the freedom to create a flexible schedule that caters to your business team and personal needs while being intentional to make the most of time spent together. Those in our remote home office roles also have the opportunity to come together in our offices for important moments that matter.

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