Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, May 22, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Working remotely, the full-time Site Reliability Engineer will apply a software engineering mindset to enhance the reliability and performance of production services on Heroku and AWS, while collaborating with the engineering team to build automated, scalable solutions.

Key responsibilities
  • Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services, proactively identifying and resolving issues using monitoring tools
  • Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, using data to inform reliability decisions
  • Optimize application and database performance by identifying bottlenecks and implementing code or infrastructure improvements
Required qualifications
  • 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability, DevOps, or related roles managing infrastructure
  • Deep experience managing applications on Heroku and AWS
  • Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions
  • Strong understanding of web application performance, particularly in a Ruby on Rails environment

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