Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote Build)

About the role

This role focuses on building and maintaining the core infrastructure that supports Remote's development and operational needs. You will be responsible for designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code patterns using tools like Terraform and Kubernetes, ensuring they support both standard and custom builds. A key aspect of the work involves creating robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to maintain high availability and performance.

A significant part of this position involves enhancing system reliability and developer experience. You will lead incident response efforts, conduct post-mortems to identify root causes, and drive continuous improvements. The role also requires close collaboration with the security team to embed security measures across all layers of the build infrastructure, ensuring compliance with regulations across numerous jurisdictions without hindering developer productivity.

Success in this role means continuously optimizing system performance, resource utilization, and cloud costs. You will identify and automate manual operational tasks, eliminating toil to improve efficiency. Partnering with platform teams is crucial to ensure that APIs, the multi-cloud platform, and command-line interfaces are resilient and observable, contributing to a stable and efficient development environment.

The salary range for this position is between $115,000 and $195,500 USD.

Skills that matter here

• Terraform: This role requires proficiency in Terraform for designing and implementing infrastructure-as-code patterns at scale.
• Kubernetes: Deep, hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production is essential for managing containerized applications and infrastructure.
• AWS: Extensive experience with AWS is necessary for managing cloud infrastructure and optimizing its performance and cost.
• GitLab: Experience with GitLab or similar CI/CD tools is needed for setting up and operating continuous integration and deployment pipelines.
• GitHub Actions: Familiarity with GitHub Actions or similar CI/CD tools is required for automating workflows and deployments.
• bash: Strong bash scripting skills are important for automating tasks and managing systems efficiently.

Who this role suits

• Someone with a senior-level SRE or DevOps background who thrives on designing and maintaining scalable infrastructure.
• A candidate who is proactive in identifying and eliminating manual operational toil through automation.
• An individual who can clearly communicate complex technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• A professional committed to embedding security and compliance into infrastructure design without creating friction for developers.

From the employer

What you’ll do

• Infrastructure as code at scale.
• Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Kubernetes that support both standard connectors and custom builds.
• Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Lead incident response efforts, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvement in system reliability.
• Work with our Security team to embed security into every layer of Build infrastructure.
• Ensure we meet compliance requirements across 100+ jurisdictions without creating friction for developers or customers.
• Continuously optimize system performance, resource utilization, and cloud costs.
• Identify manual operational toil and systematically eliminate it.
• Partner with platform teams to ensure APIs, MCP, and CLI are resilient and observable.

What you’ll bring

• Senior-level SRE experience: demonstrated experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or SysOps role.
• Kubernetes and AWS: deep, hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production.
• Infrastructure-as-code: Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• CI/CD and deployment automation: real experience setting up and operating GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
• Scripting and systems knowledge: strong bash scripting.
• Great communication: you explain complex infrastructure decisions clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Nice to have: Experience with 1+ backend programming language (Elixir, Python, Go, Java, Node.js, etc.).

Benefits

• Work from anywhere
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours (async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Mental health support services
• Stock options
• Learning budget
• Home office budget & IT equipment
• Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces