Site Reliability Engineer

Job Summary

Working remotely, the full-time Site Reliability Engineer will apply a software engineering mindset to enhance platform reliability and performance for millions of readers, collaborating with the engineering team to build automated solutions and optimize application performance.

Key responsibilities

• Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services on Heroku and AWS, using monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues
• Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, using data to drive reliability-related decisions
• Collaborate with the backend team to refactor inefficient code and improve overall system performance

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related role 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 in a Ruby on Rails environment