Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Sat, Aug 15, 2026
This job expires in: 25 days
Job Summary
Seeking a remote Site Reliability Engineer, this full-time position will manage the health and performance of production services on Heroku and AWS, optimize application performance, and build automated solutions to enhance platform reliability for millions of readers.
Key responsibilities
- Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services, using monitoring tools to proactively identify and resolve issues
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, using data to inform reliability decisions
- Collaborate with the backend team to optimize application performance and refactor code for efficiency
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
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