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, optimize application performance, and collaborate closely with the engineering team.

Key responsibilities

• Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services on Heroku and AWS, using monitoring tools to identify and resolve issues
• Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, utilizing data to inform reliability decisions
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, advocating for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices

Required qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), 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 with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions
• Strong understanding of web application performance, particularly in a Ruby on Rails environment