Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking a full-time Senior Site Reliability Engineer, this remote position will manage the reliability, scalability, and performance of mission-critical services, driving operational excellence and automation while serving as a Datadog expert.

Key responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available and resilient systems to enhance customer experience
• Define and enforce best practices for monitoring and alerting using Datadog across the AWS environment
• Develop automation tools and software to improve operational tasks and system reliability while participating in incident management and post-mortems

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in SRE, Production Engineering, or Platform Engineering roles managing production systems at scale
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, AWS, and infrastructure automation tools like Terraform
• Experience defining and using Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) for reliability decisions
• Strong programming or scripting skills in languages such as Python, Go, or Bash for building automation and tooling
• Ability to lead post-mortems and manage complex situations during high-severity incidents