Principal Site Reliability Engineer

About Chicago Software:

Customers who call us usually reach someone who wrote the code they are asking about.

What this job is:

Chicago Software has an opening for a Principal Site Reliability Engineer. Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. Remote position. Most of the team is in Chicago, but nobody is required to come in. Hours are flexible, with one short team call each morning. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments

About you:

• 7+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems

What you get:

Pay: $210,000 to $260,000 per year

• Profit sharing
• Paid sick leave
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Cell phone reimbursement

Apply with your resume. A cover letter is optional.

Start: Within 30 days.

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