Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role overview

Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability end-to-end in a bare-metal Linux data center environment (100% remote in the US). You will define reliability targets, drive error-budget discussions, and ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99).

Responsibilities

• Own production reliability end-to-end (from defining goals to shipping improvements)
• Define SLIs/SLOs and run error budget conversations
• Reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99)
• Build automation to eliminate toil
• Improve deployment safety with canary/rollback approaches
• Turn observability into actionable signal (reduce noise)
• Work close to the metal across:
  • Kubernetes internals (scheduler behavior, autoscaling edge cases, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane)
  • Linux performance (CPU/memory/IO contention and low-level behaviors)
  • Network debugging (DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion)
• Participate in on-call; success is measured by how much you reduce it

Requirements (must-have)

• Extensive production engineering experience running bare metal/on-prem/data center infrastructure (not public cloud only)
• Deep hands-on expertise in Linux systems debugging and performance (CPU, memory, IO)
• Strong networking understanding: DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion, troubleshooting (including underload)
• Strong Kubernetes experience beyond manifests: scheduler behavior, autoscaling edge cases, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, Helm, and modern CI/CD practices
• Strong coding skills (Go and/or Python) beyond automation scripting
• Experience in low-latency environments

Compensation

• Total compensation: OTE up to $350k (base + variable) depending on experience