Lead Site Reliability Engineer

What you'll do

• Implement and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to drive reliability
• Develop resilient systems ensuring 99.9%+ uptime for critical services
• Lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews with root cause analysis
• Automate incident detection and response using automated runbooks or workflows
• Write software to support reliability or efficiency needs
• Design and implement full observability using tools like OpenTelemetry
• Use capacity planning, forecasting, and performance testing for scalability
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to build reliable, scalable services
• Ensure best practices in infrastructure design, deployment, and maintenance
• Champion Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar tools
• Participate in chaos engineering initiatives
• Participate in on-call rotation
• Drive advanced alerting and anomaly detection applied to metrics

Requirements

• 3-5 years of experience as an SRE, working in cloud-based and on-prem environments
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and systems administration
• Experience with cloud platforms like AWS and Kubernetes container orchestration
• Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Honeycomb, Grafana, Prometheus, Thanos, ELK, or Loki
• Strong skills in at least one programming language (Python, Go) for production code
• Strong skills in shell scripting using bash or similar
• Experience with OpenTelemetry or other distributed tracing systems
• Experience with Chaos Engineering methodologies and tools
• Reliability-focused mindset balancing fast product iterations and system stability
• Solid understanding of SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
• Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation
• Proven expertise in incident management, postmortems, and root cause analysis
• Knowledge of modern deployment strategies and resiliency patterns

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