Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Aug 25, 2026
This job expires in: 27 days
Job Summary
To enhance platform reliability and performance for millions of readers, the full-time remote Site Reliability Engineer will manage production services on Heroku and AWS, optimize application performance, and collaborate with engineering teams to implement best practices in infrastructure and security.
Key responsibilities
- Share responsibility for the health and performance of production services, proactively identifying and resolving issues
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, using data to inform reliability decisions
- Collaborate with the backend team to refactor code and optimize application and database performance
Required qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related infrastructure management roles
- 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 in a Ruby on Rails environment
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