Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About Teallight Labs

Teallight Labs employs 520 people across engineering hubs in Aurora and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers. More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

We need another Senior Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. This role is fully remote within the US. Most of our work is async, and meetings are kept short. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Day to day

• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Lead incident response as incident commander and run blameless postmortems.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.

Why work with us

Pay: $191,000 - $255,000 per year

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Profit sharing.
• Annual bonus.

Teallight Labs 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.

This position requires a background check.

Start: Within 30 days.

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