Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AWS

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full-time

Posted on: 9/6/2025

Location: 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $170,000 - $240,000 per year

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ApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerEC2ElasticSearchGoGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesOpen SourcePrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Lead and own scaling AWS infrastructure to support thousands of servers and high-growth workloads.
Design and implement automation frameworks for provisioning, monitoring/logging, scaling, and recovery to minimize manual operations.
Continuously evaluate and tune systems for latency, throughput, and cost efficiency.
Build resilient, self-healing, and observable systems using SLOs, error budgets, and reliability best practices.
Partner closely with Development, QA, and Product Engineering teams to deliver highly available and performant systems.
Own on-call processes, lead incident management and root-cause analysis, and implement preventive measures.
Mentor engineers, act as technical leader, and set standards for best practices.

7+ years in Site Reliability, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
Startup experience and track record of scaling infrastructure to thousands of servers.
Hands-on mastery of AWS services (EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, VPC, IAM).
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools).
Strong automation and scripting skills in Python, Go, or similar languages (beyond basic scripting).
Expertise with monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK/EFK, Datadog).
Experience with CI/CD and containers (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins or GitHub Actions).
Performance engineering experience: identify bottlenecks and optimize systems for scalability and efficiency.
Proven problem solving diagnosing complex production issues at scale.
Experience designing, deploying, and managing multi-region, highly available AWS architectures in production.
Experience owning end-to-end observability and leading production incident response/root-cause analysis.
Legal authorization to work in the United States (E-Verify and application questions indicate requirement).