Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Aug 18, 2026
This job expires in: 28 days
Job Summary
Working remotely, the full-time Site Reliability Engineer will apply a software engineering mindset to enhance infrastructure reliability and performance, collaborating with the engineering team to build automated solutions for a platform serving millions of readers.
Key responsibilities
- Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services on Heroku and AWS, using monitoring tools to proactively resolve issues
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, utilizing data to inform reliability 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 with applications on Heroku and AWS
- Proven expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions
- Strong understanding of web application performance, particularly in a Ruby on Rails environment
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