Head of Reliability - Remote

Our engineering group is split into roughly 60 product teams, each owning its services end to end, with on-call shared across time zones. Headquartered in Tucson since 2002, the company now sells in 40 countries and supports customers in 11 languages. Founded in 2002, we now have 930 employees.

JOB SUMMARY:

Looking for a Head of Reliability - Remote who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. Remote, open to candidates across the US. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday.

DUTIES:

• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

• 8+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks.

BENEFITS:

Starting pay: $270,000 - $360,000/year, depending on experience and certifications.

• Medical, dental and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid holidays.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• $1,000 home office setup budget.

Yeager Data is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

A resume is enough to apply. Cover letters are optional.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Yeager Data.