Site Reliability Engineer

Job Summary

To enhance platform reliability and performance for millions of readers, the full-time remote Site Reliability Engineer will apply a software engineering mindset to solve complex infrastructure challenges, manage production services on Heroku and AWS, and optimize application performance.

Key responsibilities

• Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services, using monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, leveraging data to inform reliability work
• Collaborate with the backend team to optimize application and database performance, refactoring inefficient code and contributing to system improvements

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related roles managing infrastructure
• Deep experience managing applications on Heroku and AWS
• Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform
• Strong understanding of web application performance, particularly in a Ruby on Rails environment
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions