Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Remote in the United States or Canada (East Coast/ET). Posted 4 months ago

The role

A Senior Site Reliability Engineer will design, build, and operate shared platform foundations including GCP infrastructure, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. You will diagnose complex distributed systems and work to ensure the scalability, security, and performance of the platform.

What you will do

Design, build, and operate shared platform foundations like GCP, Kubernetes, networking, and CI/CD
Diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems
Ensure observability and analyze stack behavior
Contribute to modernizing edge, caching, and gateway layers onto Fastly
Raise the reliability bar through dashboards, alert standards, and incident response
Build golden paths, production readiness checks, and automation for deployments
Mentor engineers through code review, design review, and pairing
Participate in on-call rotation

Required qualifications

Based in the United States, with reasonable overlap with European engineering hours
Experience with SRE/DevOps tools, processes, and culture
5+ years of experience as part of an SRE on-call rotation
Analytical approach to designing, diagnosing, and optimizing infrastructure
Experience with managing scalable, highly available, cloud-based applications
Experience with Kubernetes for orchestrating, scaling, and managing containerized applications
Experience building CI/CD pipelines
Experience with an observability stack (Prometheus, et al.)
Comfortable working across CDNs, edge, gateways, and caching layers
Ability to improve on-call and reliability by building systems, standards, and feedback loops
Comfortable dealing with incidents and outages
An open but considered approach to new technologies

Nice to have

Experience with high request volume and customer-facing uptime expectations

Benefits

Highly-skilled, inspiring, and supportive team
Real infrastructure scale and meaningful, hands-on work
Positive, flexible, and trust-based work environment
Global, multi-culturally diverse group of colleagues and customers
Comprehensive health plans and perks
Healthy work-life balance
Competitive stock options program

About the company

Sanity.io is a modern content operating system that treats content as data. It is a 300+ person company that provides an AI-powered Content Operating System.