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Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Aug 18, 2026
This job expires in: 29 days

Job Summary

Working remotely, the full-time Site Reliability Engineer will apply a software engineering mindset to enhance infrastructure reliability and performance, collaborating closely 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 identify and resolve issues
  • Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, driving reliability conversations with data
  • Optimize application and database performance by identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements
Required qualifications
  • 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability, DevOps, or a related role managing infrastructure
  • Deep experience managing applications on Heroku and AWS
  • Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform
  • Strong understanding of web application performance in a Ruby on Rails environment
  • Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions

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