Staff Site Reliability Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design, build, and lead the implementation of comprehensive monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions
• ▹Define, implement, and track Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) with product and engineering teams
• ▹Act as a senior leader during high-impact incidents, guiding the team to rapid resolution and driving blameless post-mortems
• ▹Architect, build, and improve automation and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi), maintain CI/CD pipelines
• ▹Performance-tune and optimize large-scale cloud deployments with a deep focus on Kubernetes, Docker, and GCP
• ▹Dive deep into debugging extremely difficult technical problems across the stack and implement long-term fixes
• ▹Review feature and system designs from across the company, owning reliability, scalability, security, and operational integrity
• ▹Educate and mentor the broader engineering team, making reliability a core value
• ▹Write high-quality, well-tested code in Python or Go for internal tools and third-party integrations

Requirements

• ▹8-10 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar roles
• ▹Strong programming skills in Python or Go, writing high-quality, well-tested code
• ▹Deep understanding of distributed systems, with experience designing, building, scaling, and maintaining production services
• ▹Deep experience with container orchestration platforms, specifically Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies
• ▹Proven track record of designing, implementing, and maintaining sophisticated monitoring and observability solutions
• ▹Strong incident management skills with extensive experience leading incident response for complex systems
• ▹Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi) and configuration management tools
• ▹Excellent written and verbal communication, with mentoring experience from junior to principal levels

Nice to have

• ▹Deep experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services and tools
• ▹Expert-level knowledge of modern observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry)
• ▹Experience designing and building reliable systems capable of handling high throughput and low latency
• ▹Significant experience with Go and Terraform
• ▹Familiarity with rapid-growth, startup environments
• ▹Experience writing company-facing blog posts and training materials

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive salary and equity
• ▹401(k) program with a 4% match (US only)
• ▹Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
• ▹Short-term and long-term disability
• ▹Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave
• ▹Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus holidays
• ▹Commuter benefits (in-office only)
• ▹Monthly wellness stipend
• ▹Autonomous work environment
• ▹In-office set-up reimbursement (in-office only)
• ▹Quarterly team gatherings
• ▹In-office amenities (in-office only)

About the company

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language, serving millions of developers worldwide and democratizing software development.