Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Databases)

Stonesmith Data employs 1,300 people across engineering hubs in New York City and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

The role

We are backfilling a position after an internal move. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Databases) will define SLOs with product teams, improve alerting and help lead incidents when they happen. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. Normal working hours, Monday to Friday. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog.

You'll need

• 5+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.

Pay and benefits

$255,000 to $305,000 annually

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off.
• Cell phone reimbursement.

Stonesmith 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.

Apply with your resume. A cover letter is optional.

We review applications on a rolling basis.

Start: Immediately.

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