
Senior Site Reliability Engineer – AWS
Filevine
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $160,000 - $190,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Provide strong leadership, mentoring, and sound judgment as the Reliability Engineering lead on your team.
- Design and maintain autonomous systems for building, deploying, testing, and operating all Filevine products.
- Act as the authoritative voice of reliability across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Monitor, aggregate, dashboard, and alert on software/infrastructure events to ensure visibility and fast response.
- Continuously enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, playbooks, and tools to streamline processes and reduce resolution time.
- Proactively identify and resolve gaps in system availability, performance, and security while defending overall security posture.
- Document processes, architecture, procedures, and best practices; research, adopt, or build reliable tools to boost engineer productivity.
- Collaborate within your team (or independently), mentor junior engineers, participate in 24/7 on-call rotation for production support and emergency response, and communicate clearly with technical and management stakeholders.
Requirements
- 8+ years of hands-on technical experience in software engineering, infrastructure, or operations roles, including a minimum of 4 years dedicated to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
- Demonstrated curiosity, self-motivation, continuous learning mindset, passion for improvement, and proactive enthusiasm to enhance systems and processes daily without needing direction.
- Strong proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, and other common SRE tooling and scripting technologies.
- Expert-level experience designing, building, and maintaining autonomous systems that handle software build, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operations with minimal human intervention.
- Proficient hands-on experience with AWS (e.g., EC2, Kubernetes/EKS, CloudWatch, Lambda, S3, IAM).
- Proficiency in all core skills expected of an SRE II, including monitoring/alerting, incident response, capacity planning, performance optimization, CI/CD pipeline enhancement, and reliability engineering best practices.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent certifications (e.g., Google Cloud Professional certifications, AWS certifications); or substantial comparable direct work experience.
- Proven track record of independently driving reliability improvements, reducing toil through automation, and contributing to high-availability, scalable production systems in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance (for full-time employees)
- Competitive & Fair Pay
- Maternity & paternity leave (for full-time employees)
- Short & long-term disability
- Opportunity to learn from a dedicated leadership team
- Top-of-the-line company swag
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonBashPowerShellCI/CDmonitoringincident responsecapacity planningperformance optimizationautonomous systemsSRE tooling
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringself-motivationcontinuous learningproactivecommunicationcuriosityjudgmentcollaborationenthusiasm
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceBachelor's degree in Information SystemsGoogle Cloud Professional certificationsAWS certifications