Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Job Summary
As the first dedicated Staff Site Reliability Engineer in a fully remote capacity, the successful candidate will manage reliability metrics, enhance incident response processes, and foster a reliability-focused mindset across engineering teams, ensuring operational excellence and measurable reliability standards.
Key responsibilities
- Define and implement SLIs and SLOs for critical request paths, ensuring visibility and accountability among teams
- Strengthen the incident lifecycle by improving detection, response, and postmortem processes while driving alert quality and escalation design
- Coach teams on reliability practices, embedding a culture of operational excellence and deliberate failure testing
Required qualifications
- 10+ years of engineering experience, including 3+ years as a Site Reliability Engineer or in a similar reliability-focused role
- Proven expertise in SLI/SLO design and error budgets, with a track record of team adoption
- Strong incident leadership experience, having managed high-severity incidents and improved organizational learning
- Hands-on experience with distributed systems and proficiency in Kubernetes, AWS, and modern observability tools
- Ability to read and write production code (Go, TypeScript, or similar) and familiarity with infrastructure as code
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