Site Reliability Engineer

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, using monitoring tools to identify and resolve issues
• Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, using data to inform reliability decisions
• Collaborate with the backend team to optimize application and database performance by identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related roles managing infrastructure
• Deep experience with applications on Heroku and AWS
• Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically with 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