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Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Fri, Aug 21, 2026
This job expires in: 25 days

Job Summary

Collaborating with the engineering team, the full-time remote Site Reliability Engineer will manage the health and performance of production services on Heroku and AWS, optimize application performance, and build automated solutions to enhance system reliability for millions of readers.

Key responsibilities
  • Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services, utilizing 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 and database performance by identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements
Required qualifications
  • 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a related role managing infrastructure
  • Deep experience with applications on Heroku and AWS
  • Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), specifically Terraform
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions
  • Strong understanding of web application performance, particularly in a Ruby on Rails environment

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