Gamma

Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco. Posted 12 months ago

The role

You will own the operational health of the full backend platform. You will build automation and tooling to improve reliability and partner with engineering to design observable and resilient systems.

What you will do

  • Own the reliability, availability, and performance of production systems across AWS infrastructure
  • Build observability infrastructure including metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
  • Design and ship automation to reduce toil and make deployments safer
  • Lead incident response and blameless post-mortems
  • Partner with engineering teams on architecture reviews, SLO and SLI design, and reliability best practices
  • Manage and optimize compute, networking, databases, and managed services

Required qualifications

  • 5+ years in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or systems engineering with deep, hands-on AWS expertise
  • Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript/Node.js
  • Solid experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and end-to-end observability solutions
  • Track record of making systems more reliable through automation, monitoring, and architectural improvements
  • Deep understanding of networking, distributed systems, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and database performance at scale
  • Sharp incident management instincts and debugging skills

Nice to have

  • Experience scaling SaaS products to millions of users
  • Background with Kafka, chaos engineering, or service mesh technologies
  • AWS certifications
  • Experience with security and compliance frameworks like SOC 2 or ISO 27001

Benefits

  • benefits
  • equity

About the company

Gamma's infrastructure needs to be rock-solid for millions of daily users while enabling engineering teams to ship fast.

Site Reliability Engineer at Gamma | JobZoey