Site Reliability Engineer

Ookla

Site Reliability Engineer maintaining Ookla’s global cloud, database, and observability infrastructure. Supporting connectivity intelligence services used by hundreds of millions worldwide.

Posted 9/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $90,000 - $100,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and maintaining distributed cloud infrastructure, with a strong focus on security best practices and operational support for software engineering teams. Proficient in implementing Infrastructure as Code and managing container-based architectures.

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Infrastructure As CodeCloud Infrastructure ManagementSecurity Best PracticesContainer-Based ArchitecturesData Engineering Support

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Hard Skills

MySQLPostgreSQLTerraformDockerKubernetesTypeScriptGoPythonAWSSQL

Soft Skills

Strong Verbal CommunicationStrong Written CommunicationTime ManagementSelf-Driven Work Ethic

Tools & Technologies

GitGitHubChefAnsibleKinesisKafkaSparkMongoDBDynamoDBCloudFormation

Industry Keywords

Distributed SystemsCloud InstancesServerless ApplicationsTransactional Database InfrastructureMonitoring and Observability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSChefCloudDistributed SystemsDockerDynamoDBGoJavaKafkaKubernetesLinuxMongoDBMySQLNoSQLPHPPostgresPythonRubySparkSQLTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build, maintain, and operate the infrastructure platform supporting Ookla services
Maintain a distributed global ecosystem of cloud instances, containerized workflows, serverless applications, Linux servers, and associated infrastructure
Maintain transactional database infrastructure using MySQL, PostgreSQL, RDS, and Aurora
Support NoSQL data storage engines such as DynamoDB and MongoDB
Build and support data stream processing with Kinesis or Kafka
Support data engineering and big data toolchains such as Spark
Support production systems in a 24x7x365 environment, including on-call responsibilities
Provide architectural and operational support to software engineers
Guide operational best practices for software and data engineering teams
Implement and oversee security programs, including vulnerability remediation, patch management, IDS/IPS, and penetration testing
Support development-to-production code deployment pipelines
Provide tooling and guidance for monitoring and observability best practices
Assist development teams with troubleshooting

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of systems/platform engineering experience
Experience building globally-distributed systems
Strong understanding of security best practices
Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and CloudFormation
Git and GitHub source code configuration management
Configuration management systems such as Chef or Ansible
Container-based architectures including Docker and Kubernetes
Proficiency in one or more high-level programming languages such as TypeScript, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, or Java
Experience with AWS and other cloud infrastructure platforms
Comfort writing SQL queries and analyzing query performance
Comfort learning and working with new technologies in an ever-changing environment
Strong verbal and written communication skills
Strong time management skills and a self-driven work ethic

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work environment
Individuality, fun, and talent valued equally
24x7x365 production support with on-call responsibilities