Senior Site Reliability Engineer DevOps Engineer
Mountain View, CA - USA
Job Summary
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer
Role Overview
Seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer to design scale and operate highly available global infrastructure supporting production systems across multiple international regions.
This role is for an engineer with 5 years of experience building and running production-grade cloud infrastructure. The right person understands where distributed systems fail and has learned the hard lessons that come from operating Kubernetes and cloud platforms at scale.
The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes ArgoCD Terraform CI/CD pipelines AWS infrastructure and multi-region platform reliability. They should understand the limitations sharp edges and operational failure modes of these tools.
This is an onsite role working closely with platform engineering and leadership to build resilient global infrastructure.
What Youll Do
Global Infrastructure Architecture
- Design and operate globally distributed production infrastructure across AWS regions and physical data center environments in South America and Europe
- Build highly available multi-region systems with strong disaster recovery and failover strategies
- Solve cross-region networking latency DNS routing replication and reliability challenges
Kubernetes Platform Engineering
- Build scale secure and troubleshoot production Kubernetes clusters
- Handle cluster lifecycle management upgrades node failures networking issues storage problems and control-plane troubleshooting
- Tune workloads for resiliency scheduling efficiency autoscaling behavior and resource optimization
- Debug real-world Kubernetes issues including:
- etcd instability
- networking overlays and CNI failures
- ingress/controller edge cases
- persistent volume failures
- node pressure and eviction behavior
- cluster upgrade regressions
- etcd instability
GitOps / ArgoCD Operations
- Design and maintain GitOps workflows using ArgoCD
- Manage promotion pipelines across environments and regions
- Resolve drift detection issues sync conflicts reconciliation failures and deployment ordering challenges
- Build safe rollback and progressive deployment strategies
Candidates should know why ArgoCD breaks not just how to click Sync.
Infrastructure as Code
- Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for multi-region infrastructure
- Manage state strategy workspace isolation secrets handling and provider complexity
- Solve real-world Terraform pain points including:
- state corruption and locking conflicts
- module version drift
- provider upgrade regressions
- dependency graph surprises
- cross-account provisioning complexity
- state corruption and locking conflicts
CI/CD Engineering
- Build and optimize production CI/CD pipelines
- Improve deployment speed safety and repeatability
- Troubleshoot flaky pipelines artifact inconsistencies race conditions environment drift and rollback failures
Reliability & Observability
- Establish SLIs/SLOs and production health standards
- Build alerting monitoring tracing and incident response workflows
- Lead root cause analysis and postmortem improvements
- Reduce operational toil through automation
Why This Role
Youll own foundational infrastructure decisions for globally distributed systems and help build resilient platform capabilities at international scale.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who wants meaningful ownership and complex technical problems.
Requirements
Required Experience
5 years in Site Reliability Engineering DevOps or Platform Engineering
Deep production experience with:
Kubernetes
ArgoCD
Terraform
AWS
CI/CD systems
Linux systems administration
Infrastructure automation
Preferred Experience
- Experience operating infrastructure across multiple continents
- Experience with hybrid cloud or physical data center integration
- Strong networking knowledge including BGP VPNs routing DNS and load balancing
- Experience with security hardening and compliance in production systems
- Software engineering background with Go Python or Bash
What Senior Means Here
You have enough production experience to have strong opinions because you have seen failures firsthand.
You know:
why Terraform plans sometimes lie
why ArgoCD syncs can fail for non-obvious reasons
why Kubernetes upgrades can ruin your week
why works in staging means very little
why multi-region failover diagrams often fail in production
why observability usually breaks exactly when needed most
Youve solved these problems repeatedly and improved systems because of those lessons.