Site Reliability Engineer
Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Wed, Sep 23, 2026
This job expires in: 30 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, proactively identifying and resolving issues
- Define and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, using data to inform reliability decisions
- Optimize application and database performance by identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements
Required qualifications
- 3-5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, 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 coding skills, with the ability to write production-grade code and refactor for efficiency
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