Site Reliability Engineer

More than 9,000 organizations use our HR and payroll suite, from regional hospitals to school districts.

Role overview:

We need another Site Reliability Engineer to keep our production systems available, measurable and boring. Remote position. Most of the team is in Hoboken, but nobody is required to come in. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare.
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.
• 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.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and a major cloud provider.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.
• Hands-on with metrics, logging and tracing systems.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing.

Preferred:

• EBPF-based tooling.
• Running PostgreSQL, Cassandra, Kafka or Elasticsearch at scale.

$160,000-$193,000 a year

What we offer:

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• 11 paid holidays.
• Profit sharing.
• Annual bonus.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Home office stipend.

GA Data is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status.

Most hires start within two to three weeks of an offer.

Please include a short note on why this role interests you.

Start: Immediately.

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