Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer

Role Overview

Join SimScale as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer. This is a hands-on role where you will own and improve the organization’s cloud infrastructure, expand observability across teams, and help shape multi-region architecture.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and improve cloud infrastructure across areas including AWS + EKS, observability, disaster recovery, and security/compliance controls.
• Build standards, guardrails, and self-service tooling so engineering teams can safely run workloads on AWS.
• Drive organization-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry for distributed tracing and metrics.
• Help teams define meaningful SLOs/SLIs and improve reliability based on that data.
• Collaborate with a small infrastructure team supporting 50+ engineers.

Requirements

• Strong foundation in Linux internals and distributed systems to debug production behavior.
• Software development background and ability to write production-quality code in at least one of:
  • Python, Go, Rust, or Java
• Security and compliance awareness (e.g., impact on access control, auditability, disaster recovery, logging, and SOC 2).
• Deep experience in production incident debugging, clear incident communication, and converting findings into durable improvements.
• Hands-on cloud/platform experience including:
  • AWS (or GCP)
  • Terraform (declarative infrastructure)
  • Argo CD (GitOps workflow)
  • Kubernetes (container orchestration)
• 5+ years professional experience in SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering.
• Clear communication and ability to explain trade-offs and enable adoption without unnecessary friction.
• Observability/reliability experience with:
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Prometheus
  • distributed tracing
  • monitoring and SLOs/SLIs
• Open source portfolio or contributions.

Nice to Have

• Prior technical leadership experience, especially in infrastructure, reliability, or platform engineering.

Benefits (Highlights)

Mobile working, competitive health benefits, discounted gym membership, flexible hours, learning & development opportunities, child care contributions, and a retirement plan.