Site Reliability Engineer - Remote

Overview

This role involves taking ownership of platform health, reliability, and scalability as a Site Reliability Engineer in a product-focused startup.

In Short

• Be the first dedicated DevOps/Infra hire.
• Define and maintain service SLOs, dashboards, and alerts.
• Improve incident detection and response.
• Maintain and improve Terraform-managed infrastructure.
• Lead migration of staging infrastructure to AWS.
• Increase pipeline reliability and speed up deploy cycles.
• Identify and fix slow database queries.
• Monitor and optimize cloud spend.
• Build tools for cost-aware decisions.
• Work in a high-autonomy, high-ownership environment.

Requirements

• 4–8+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure roles.
• Hands-on AWS experience (EC2, RDS, VPCs, etc.).
• Confidence with Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, and PostgreSQL.
• Track record of improving observability and reducing incident response times.
• Experience in high-autonomy, high-ownership environments.
• Cost-conscious with the ability to identify waste in infra and cloud spend.
• Desire to build leverage tools for engineers.

Benefits

• Impact on systems and culture of software development.
• High autonomy and low process.
• Team values thoughtfulness, speed, and care.
• Opportunity for growth within the company.