Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Akuity

Senior SRE responsible for platform reliability at Akuity, optimizing Kubernetes and AWS performance. Collaborate with teams on incident response and improvements while maintaining critical SLAs.

Posted 7/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSEC2GoGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPython

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own SLI/SLO/SLA definitions for the Akuity SaaS platform and drive continuous improvement against them
Design, instrument, and maintain observability systems (metrics, logs, traces) across multi-region AWS infrastructure
Identify reliability gaps, lead blameless post-mortems, and close the loop with permanent fixes
Partner with engineering teams to build reliability into new features before they ship to production
Participate in an on-call rotation and act as incident commander for high-severity production events
Build and maintain runbooks, escalation paths, and incident playbooks that keep mean time to resolution low
Drive improvements to alerting fidelity; reduce noise, increase signal, eliminate toil
Lead post-incident reviews with clear timelines, root cause analysis, and follow-through on action items

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of SRE, platform engineering, or production operations experience in a SaaS environment
Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise; you understand the scheduler, networking, storage, and autoscaling at a level where you can debug anything
Strong AWS fundamentals across compute (EC2, EKS), networking (VPC, NLB, Route53), storage (S3, RDS), and IAM
Experience defining and operating against SLOs in production; you've written error budgets, not just read about them
Proficiency with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, or equivalent)
Solid scripting and automation skills; Go, Python, Bash, or similar; you automate what you touch
Strong written communication: clear runbooks, sharp incident reports, thoughtful post-mortems
Live within US time zones (Pacific through Eastern), including Canada and other regions

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation, commensurate with experience
Equity participation in a well-funded, growing company
Fully remote: work from anywhere within US time zones (Pacific through Eastern), including Canada and other regions
Home office stipend and equipment budget
Flexible time off and a culture that respects it
Work directly with the engineers who built Argo CD and Kargo; you'll learn a lot here
US-based employees receive full benefits, including comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage. Candidates based outside the US will be engaged as contractors.

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Hard Skills & Tools

SREKubernetesAWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, NLB, Route53, S3, RDS, IAM)SLO Definition and OperationPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryDatadogScripting (Go, Python, Bash)Automation

Soft Skills

Strong Written Communication