Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location

New York City, NY

Experience: 2–8 years

Employment Type: Full-time

Compensation: $145,000 – $225,000 per year + bonus/equity

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our engineering team in New York City. You will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of our production systems and cloud infrastructure.

You will work at the intersection of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and operations. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, observability, distributed systems, and building highly reliable platforms that can scale with business growth.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available and scalable production infrastructure.
• Improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Develop automation to eliminate repetitive operational tasks and reduce manual intervention.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure across

AWS, GCP, or Azure

.

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for reliable and automated deployments.
• Manage containerized workloads using

Docker and Kubernetes

.

• Implement infrastructure using

Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools

.

• Establish monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability across production systems.
• Work with tools such as

Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, ELK, or OpenTelemetry

.

• Troubleshoot production incidents and participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Define and monitor

SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs

.

• Identify system bottlenecks and implement performance and reliability improvements.
• Develop disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity strategies.
• Collaborate with software engineers to build reliable and operationally efficient applications.
• Participate in on-call rotations and help improve incident-management processes.
• Document infrastructure, operational procedures, architecture, and incident learnings.

Must-Have Skills

• 2–8 years of experience

in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related field.

• Strong experience with

Linux/Unix systems administration

.

• Hands-on experience with

AWS, GCP, or Azure

.

• Strong knowledge of

Docker and Kubernetes

.

• Experience with

Terraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code tools

.

• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as

Python, Go, Bash, or Java

.

• Experience building and managing

CI/CD pipelines

.

• Strong understanding of networking, DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing, and security fundamentals.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability platforms.
• Understanding of distributed systems, scalability, high availability, and fault tolerance.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with incident response and root-cause analysis.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with

AWS EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, CloudFront, and CloudWatch

.

• Experience with

Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or OpenTelemetry

.

• Knowledge of service meshes such as Istio or Linkerd.
• Experience with

Kafka, RabbitMQ, or other distributed messaging systems

.

• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or ArgoCD.
• Knowledge of security engineering and cloud security best practices.
• Experience implementing SLOs, error budgets, and reliability metrics.
• Familiarity with FinOps and cloud-cost optimization.
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems.
• AWS/GCP/Azure or Kubernetes certifications.
• Experience in fintech, SaaS, high-growth startups, or other high-availability environments.