Senior Site Reliability Engineer

AuthZed

Site Reliability Engineer responsible for maintaining systems reliability and performance at AuthZed. Collaborate globally while developing scalable infrastructure solutions for a cutting-edge authorization platform.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDockerGoGrafanaJavaKubernetesNode.jsPrometheusPythonRubySQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure solutions for our projects, products, and customers.
Monitor and analyze system performance, identifying and resolving bottlenecks and issues to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration management processes.
Continuously improve system reliability, security, and efficiency through proactive monitoring, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues in production and test environments.
Collaborate with software engineering teams to design and implement systems that are resilient, scalable, and secure.
Participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents in a timely manner.
Document system configurations, troubleshooting procedures, and operational guidelines.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar role.
Strong understanding of networking, operating systems, and cloud infrastructure.
Experience with Site Reliability Engineering, System Design, and Distributed Computing.
Experience in various programming languages — we currently have SDKs for NodeJS, Java, Python, Ruby, and Go.
Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform and Pulumi.
Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
Experience with lower-level implementation details of relational databases (bonus if you have have experience with distributed SQL databases like Google Cloud Spanner or CockroachDB).
Experience working with Git and GitHub.
Experience with continuous integration and deployment systems.
Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary based on experience
Stock options at an early-stage startup
Comprehensive benefits including healthcare (US-based) and other insurance
A full remote and flexible schedule to accommodate different timezones
Twice-yearly travel for team offsites focused on team bonding, collaboration, and having fun!

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Hard Skills & Tools

Site Reliability EngineeringSystem DesignDistributed ComputingNodeJSJavaPythonRubyGoDockerKubernetes

Soft Skills

problem-solvingtroubleshootingcommunicationcollaboration