Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Mon, Aug 10, 2026
This job expires in: 26 days
Job Summary
Working remotely, the full-time Site Reliability Engineer will apply a software engineering mindset to enhance the reliability and performance of production services on Heroku and AWS, collaborating with the engineering team to build automated solutions that support rapid software deployment.
Key responsibilities
- Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services, using monitoring tools to identify and resolve issues
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, utilizing data to inform reliability decisions
- Optimize application and database performance, identifying bottlenecks and implementing 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, especially in a Ruby on Rails environment
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