Site Reliability Engineer

Modulate

Site Reliability Engineer responsible for the reliability of production systems at Modulate. Leading monitoring and incident response efforts as part of a growing engineering team.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeSomerville • Massachusetts • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $150,000 - $200,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsEC2LinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and operate production systems supporting Modulate’s APIs and enterprise products
Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes
Build and improve on-call rotations and operational workflows
Collaborate with engineers to deploy, maintain, and scale distributed systems
Partner with leadership on infrastructure decisions, roadmaps, and reliability goals
Evaluate and support deployment models including cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments
Continuously improve system performance, resilience, and scalability

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience deploying and maintaining production software systems
Experience building monitoring and alerting systems for production environments
Experience with on-call rotations and incident response
Strong experience with AWS, Python, and Linux
Familiarity with tools such as CloudWatch, SNS, PagerDuty, or similar technologies
Strong debugging, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills
Ability to communicate effectively during high-pressure incidents
Experience working in fast-paced or early-stage environments
Nice to Have
Experience with AWS services such as EC2, load balancers, RDS, SQS, SES, and CloudWatch
Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
Experience supporting high-scale, distributed systems
Familiarity with hybrid or on-prem deployment models

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary + equity
Full health, dental, and vision coverage
Flexible PTO, with a strong culture of taking it
Weekly team lunches with dietary accommodations
Hybrid work: core in-office days with flexible remote options
Regular leadership and industry learning sessions
Support for career development and continued learning
Up to 8 weeks work-from-anywhere policy
A deeply inclusive, human-centered culture

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Hard Skills & Tools

AWSPythonLinuxTerraformCloudFormationCloudWatchEC2RDSSQSSES

Soft Skills

problem-solvingcommunicationsystems thinkingleadership