Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

The role

You will own the day-to-day administration of AWS accounts, databases, and backup posture. You will perform production monitoring and debugging for a fully serverless platform.

What you will do

• Own day-to-day administration across AWS services, accounts, and access.
• Perform database administration across PostgreSQL and other data stores.
• Own backup posture across databases, S3 buckets, and queues.
• Verify restores regularly and maintain a tested disaster recovery plan.
• Proactively monitor production using CloudWatch, metric alarms, log-based metrics, and Slack alerting.
• Lead production debugging and incident response.
• Build and maintain runbooks.
• Participate in the on-call rotation.
• Resolve queue and dead-letter-queue failures through retry, redrive, and recovery.
• Refine infrastructure to ensure it is easily deployable and scalable using infrastructure as code.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4-6 years of related experience or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, or platform operations, with significant responsibility for production systems.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, with an emphasis on serverless services (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, S3).
• Strong database administration experience: PostgreSQL operations, backup and recovery, and query performance.
• Comfort administering other data stores.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as TypeScript, Python, and bash for production automation and operational tooling.
• Strong understanding of Linux, DNS, TLS, Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code (SST, Pulumi, or Terraform).
• Experience with production monitoring and alerting, incident response, and on-call ownership.

About the company

MeridianLink has a cloud engineering team.