Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Newsela

Senior Site Reliability Engineer focusing on infrastructure automation with Terraform and Github Actions at Newsela. Collaborating on monitoring and incident response for news services.

Posted 5/2/2026contractRemote • 🇦🇷 ArgentinaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformMySQLNeo4jPostgresPythonRedisSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

As a Senior Site Reliability Contractor, you will be involved in coding infrastructure automation with Terraform and Github Actions CI/CD.
Focus on improving our monitoring using Datadog, Sentry, and Cloudwatch.
Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Newsela.com availability and provide support for developers during internal and external incidents.
Maintain and assist in extending our infrastructure with Terraform, Github Actions CI/CD, Prefect, and AWS services.
Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than outages using Datadog, Sentry and CloudWatch.
Look for ways to turn repeatable manual actions into automations to reduce on-call toil.
Improve operational processes (such as deployments, releases, migrations, etc) to make them run seamlessly with fault tolerance in mind.
Design, build and maintain core cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP that enables scaling to support thousands of concurrent users.
Debug production issues across services and levels of the stack.
Provide infrastructure and architectural planning support as an embedded team member within a domain of Newsela’s application developers.
Plan the growth of Newsela’s infrastructure.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Infrastructure as code: use Terraform and Github CI/CD for automation, containerize our environments (Docker, ECS), and leverage cloud technologies to meet our goals
Systems: manage, configure and troubleshoot operating system issues, storage (block and object), networking (VPCs, proxies and CDNs), and administer high-availability datastores (mySQL, Postgres, Neo4J) and Redis clusters
Monitoring and instrumentation: implement metrics in Datadog, Sentry, log management and related systems, and Slack/JIRA integrations
Engineering practices: availability, reliability and scalability, as well as disaster recovery
Work in a variety of languages: Shell, IaC, Python, SQL
Planning: familiarity with agile methodologies; use epics, issues to drive projects
Organization: personal and team workload organization, OKR leadership
Management: able to self-organize and accomplish tasks asynchronously
Leading and contributing to scope and designs for issues, epics, and OKRs
Contributing to Newsela architecture diagrams, process diagrams and runbook documentation
Completing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and perform readiness reviews
Improving team practices through code reviews, handoffs of work and incidents
Knowledge sharing, mentoring within SRE and developer teams
Self-awareness, handling conflict in the team, providing and receiving feedback
Maintaining good relationships with other engineering teams at Newsela that help improve the product
Accountability: willing to proactively step in and do the right thing while providing candid and constructive feedback.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. Additional benefits such as gym reimbursement, pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul.
We are a fully remote company. We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs!
Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more!
Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes a employer match to help you build long-term financial security.
Flexible PTO, paid sick time off, company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st).
Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela.
No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.

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Hard Skills & Tools

TerraformGithub ActionsAWSGCPDockerECSPythonSQLmySQLPostgres

Soft Skills

self-organizationaccountabilityknowledge sharingmentoringconflict resolutionfeedbackteam workload organizationOKR leadershipplanningengineering practices