Rainforest

Site Reliability Engineer

Rainforest

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Atlanta • United States

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Tech Stack

AWSAzureCloudGoJavaKubernetesPostgresPrometheusPythonRubyTerraform

About the role

  • Owning and scaling Rainforest’s Amazon Web Services (AWS)-based cloud infrastructure using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) orchestration
  • Building, operating, and continuously improving Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and serverless environments that support our core payments services
  • Designing and maintaining modern CI/CD pipelines with GitLab to enable fast, safe deployments
  • Implementing and evolving monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure high uptime and quick incident resolution using tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and New Relic
  • Automating infrastructure and operational processes to eliminate manual work and accelerate delivery
  • Working side-by-side with application engineers to improve system performance, reliability, and scalability
  • Leading incident response efforts, conducting postmortems, and driving continuous improvement
  • Helping to define and roll out SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets as the company scales
  • Optimizing for cost, security, and compliance in a regulated fintech environment
  • Supporting and scaling Postgres database infrastructure using AWS RDS offerings (Global Aurora)

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles (startup or high-growth experience a plus)
  • Passion for building reliable systems that scale with the business
  • Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
  • Deep experience with IaC using tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Terragrunt, and CloudFormation
  • Solid production experience with container orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS)
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitLab and GitHub Actions
  • Strong understanding of monitoring and observability principles and design and providing dashboards, visualizations and alerts
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or Ruby).
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines is preferred
Benefits
  • comprehensive health benefits package
  • unlimited paid time off
  • paid parental leave
  • fun and flexible working environment
  • continuously invest in our people and our culture
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Hard Skills & Tools
AWSTerraformIaCElastic Kubernetes ServiceCI/CDGitLabOpenTelemetryPrometheusNew RelicPostgres
Soft Skills
incident responsecontinuous improvementsystem performancereliabilityscalabilitycollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershippassion for reliability