Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Sun, Aug 09, 2026
This job expires in: 25 days
Job Summary
As part of a collaborative remote team, the Site Reliability Engineer will apply a software engineering mindset to enhance the reliability and performance of production services on Heroku and AWS, while building automated solutions that empower software engineers to deliver efficiently.
Key responsibilities
- Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services, proactively identifying and resolving issues using monitoring tools
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, using data to inform reliability-related decisions
- Optimize application and database performance by identifying bottlenecks and implementing necessary improvements
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), particularly 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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