Site Reliability Engineer I - Remote

About Cottonpoint Labs

Cottonpoint Labs is a 5-person software shop in Stockton. The founders still answer support tickets. Releases go out Tuesday mornings, never on Fridays.

The role

Looking for a Site Reliability Engineer I - Remote who wants to stay somewhere for a while. SRE role with a heavy software component. We expect you to write code that removes toil, not just run playbooks. You can work from home anywhere in the US. We have no office requirement.

What you'll work on

• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling
• Improve observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo or Datadog
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills
• Build and tune alerting so pages are actionable and rare

Requirements

• 1-2 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles
• Clear writing for postmortems and runbooks
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure

Preferred qualifications

• EBPF-based tooling
• Multi-region or active-active architecture

Perks and benefits

Salary: $117,000-$135,000 a year

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one
• 401(k) with 4% match
• Paid time off
• Profit sharing
• Referral program

Start: Within 30 days.

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