Site Reliability Engineer

Job Summary

To enhance platform reliability and performance for millions of readers, the full-time remote Site Reliability Engineer will collaborate with the engineering team to manage production services, optimize application performance, and implement Infrastructure as Code practices.

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 guide reliability discussions and 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, 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