Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Filevine, embedded with a cross-functional team. You’ll lead reliability efforts for mission-critical parts of the platform, driving improvements across the SDLC and supporting production through an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor: Provide reliability engineering leadership, judgment, and guidance to the team (including mentoring junior engineers).
• Design and maintain autonomous systems for:
  • building, deploying, testing, and operating Filevine products
  • minimizing human intervention through automation
• Own reliability across the SDLC as the authoritative voice for reliability engineering.
• Monitoring and incident support:
  • monitor software and infrastructure events
  • proactively identify and resolve gaps in availability, performance, and security
  • participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for production support
• CI/CD improvements: Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability and delivery outcomes.
• Operational rigor: Document processes, collaborate with the team, and support reliability best practices (e.g., incident response, capacity planning, and performance optimization).

Requirements

• 8+ years hands-on technical experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or operations, including at least 4 years in SRE.
• Hands-on AWS expertise, including at least some of: EC2, Kubernetes/EKS, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, IAM.
• Python and scripting proficiency: Python, Bash, PowerShell, and other SRE automation/tooling.
• Proven ability to independently drive reliability improvements, reduce toil via automation, and deliver high-availability, scalable production systems.
• Expert-level ability to design/build/maintain autonomous systems spanning build → deploy → test → monitor → operate.

Nice-to-haves

• Certifications (e.g., AWS or comparable cloud certifications like Google Cloud Professional) or equivalent education/experience.
• Demonstrated continuous learning, self-motivation, and curiosity for process and system improvements.