Site Reliability Engineer

About Lilacbank HQ

We are bootstrapped and profitable, with a Shopify store and a small warehouse unit in Hoover. Core hours are 10 to 3, and the rest of the day is flexible.

About the role

Lilacbank HQ's Production Engineering team owns uptime for services that customers depend on around the clock. You'll split time between engineering work and operational load. Our services run on Kubernetes across two cloud regions. This hire will help us get better at capacity planning and failover. The work is on site and cannot be done remotely.

What you'll do

• Define SLIs and SLOs with service owners and track error budgets.
• Run capacity planning and load tests with k6, Locust or Gatling.
• Write tooling in Go or Python to automate failover, scaling and routine operations.
• Review architecture proposals for reliability risks before launch.

You have

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

Nice to have

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation.

Pay and benefits

Salary range: $148,000 to $171,000 a year

• Health insurance.
• 401(k) with 4% match.
• Paid holidays.
• Life insurance.
• Professional development budget.
• Employee discount.
• Vision insurance.

Interview process: a phone call, a meeting with the hiring manager, and a final conversation with the team.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Lilacbank HQ LLC.