Benchmark

Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability

Benchmark

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudGrafanaPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

  • Contribute to the design, development, and delivery of features that enhance system reliability and scalability.
  • Define, measure, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in collaboration with engineering teams.
  • Participate in building a culture of reliability through knowledge sharing, documentation, and process improvements.
  • Implement and improve observability tooling and practices to monitor the health and performance of production systems.
  • Participate in incident management, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and postmortem reviews.
  • Lead smaller initiatives or components of larger projects, ensuring technical quality and operational readiness.
  • Collaborate with software engineering, security, and product teams to ensure resilient and secure system design.
  • Mentor junior engineers, sharing expertise in SRE principles and AWS best practices.
  • Contribute to automation efforts to reduce toil and improve efficiency of operational processes.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Software Engineering with a focus on production operations.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
  • Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash).
  • Experience with observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana).
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work cross-functionally.
  • Some experience mentoring or coaching junior engineers.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Professional development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsSoftware EngineeringAWSPythonBashobservability toolsinfrastructure-as-codeTerraformCloudFormation
Soft Skills
problem-solvingmentoringcollaborationknowledge sharingprocess improvement