Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Aug 05, 2026
This job expires in: 22 days
Job Summary
Working remotely, the full-time Site Reliability Engineer will apply a software engineering mindset to enhance platform reliability and performance, collaborating with the engineering team to build automated solutions for scaling services used by millions of readers.
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 for key services, utilizing 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 Engineering, 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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