Site Reliability Engineer II

Southside Data's operations team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load. Remote position. Most of the team is in New York City, but nobody is required to come in. You can set your own hours around a daily morning check-in. A quiet workspace and good internet are required.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Plan and run game days and chaos experiments.
• Maintain on-call schedules, runbooks and escalation policies in PagerDuty or Opsgenie.
• Harden databases and caches with replication, backups and restore drills.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters, node pools and autoscaling.

Requirements

• 2-4 years in SRE, production engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Deep Linux knowledge, including systemd, networking and tools like strace and tcpdump.
• Understanding of distributed systems: consensus, replication, partitioning, backpressure.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python or Java.

What you get

Rate: $97.50 - $107.00 per hour

• $1,000 home office setup budget.
• Referral program.

About us

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Duration: 9 months. Start: Flexible.

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