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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$123,000 - CA$160,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDistributed SystemsGoGrafanaHadoopJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonSparkTerraform

About the role

  • Architect, design, and evolve complex distributed systems to improve reliability, operational efficiency, and performance at scale
  • Partner closely with product, security, and data engineering teams to translate business needs into resilient and scalable system designs
  • Drive reliability through automation and advanced observability
  • Lead and mentor in high stakes situations
  • Perform deep infrastructure cost audits
  • Own and maintain key distributed data platforms
  • Guide teams in defining SLIs/SLOs and operational best practices
  • Continuously identify and eliminate bottlenecks
  • Champion Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management
  • Lead our GitOps and deployment strategy using Argo CD

Requirements

  • 6+ years in SRE, systems engineering, or software engineering roles
  • Proven track record as a senior reliability or production engineer
  • Expert level proficiency in Kubernetes, AWS, Linux internals, and distributed system fundamentals
  • Strong programming skills in Go, Python, Java, Kotlin, Bash, or similar languages
  • Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Loki, PagerDuty)
  • Familiarity with large scale data and streaming ecosystems such as Kafka, Spark, Aerospike, FoundationDB, and the broader Hadoop ecosystem
  • Deep experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or related IaC tooling
  • Proven incident management leadership in production SaaS systems
  • Exceptional problem solving skills
Benefits
  • Comprehensive benefits package
  • Health and wellness programs
  • Paid time off
  • Retirement planning options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesAWSLinux internalsdistributed systemsGoPythonJavaKotlinBashTerraform
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringproblem solving