Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About us:

Sellers use the platform to list used outdoor gear, and we handle payments, shipping labels and buyer protection. Revenue comes from a mix of advertising, affiliate commissions and a premium tier. Product reviews happen on Thursdays, with demos of whatever shipped that week.

The role:

Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. We need another Senior Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. Our headquarters is in Chicago, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. Core hours overlap with US Central time, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.

About you:

• 6+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.

What you get:

• Long-term engagement.
• Annual rate review.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

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