Site Reliability Engineer II

About us:

The product is a mobile app plus a React web dashboard, with a Python and PostgreSQL backend on AWS. Customers use our platform to manage equipment rentals: reservations, check-out, damage photos, invoicing and QuickBooks sync.

The role:

Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. The Site Reliability Engineer II will define SLOs with product teams, improve alerting and help lead incidents when they happen. This role is fully remote within the US. Weekday working hours, with room to shift your day when needed. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

In your first few months you will:

• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.
• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.
• Tune Linux kernel, network and JVM settings when performance requires it.
• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.
• Reduce toil by measuring it and automating the worst offenders.

What you bring:

• 3+ years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP and load balancing.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or similar.
• Experience participating in and leading on-call rotations.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.

Also helpful:

• CKA or CKS certification.
• Multi-region or active-active architecture.
• EBPF-based tooling.

Why work with us:

Compensation: $175,000 - $230,000 a year DOE.

• Health, dental and vision coverage starting on day one.
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 5%.
• Paid holidays.
• Gym membership reimbursement.
• Professional development budget.
• Flexible schedule.

Start: Within 30 days.

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