Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer

Location: Onsite - Mountain View, CA

Experience Required: 5+ years

Infrastructure Footprint: Global production infrastructure across AWS, South America, and Europe

Role Type: Hands-on engineering role

Role Overview

Seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer / DevOps Engineer to design, scale, and operate highly available global infrastructure supporting production systems across multiple international regions.

This role is for an engineer with 5+ years of experience building and running production-grade cloud infrastructure. The right person understands where distributed systems fail and has learned the hard lessons that come from operating Kubernetes and cloud platforms at scale.

The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, AWS infrastructure, and multi-region platform reliability. They should understand the limitations, sharp edges, and operational failure modes of these tools.

This is an onsite role working closely with platform engineering and leadership to build resilient global infrastructure.

What You’ll Do

Global Infrastructure Architecture

• Design and operate globally distributed production infrastructure across AWS regions and physical data center environments in South America and Europe
  
• Build highly available multi-region systems with strong disaster recovery and failover strategies
  
• Solve cross-region networking, latency, DNS routing, replication, and reliability challenges
  

Kubernetes Platform Engineering

• Build, scale, secure, and troubleshoot production Kubernetes clusters
  
• Handle cluster lifecycle management, upgrades, node failures, networking issues, storage problems, and control-plane troubleshooting
  
• Tune workloads for resiliency, scheduling efficiency, autoscaling behavior, and resource optimization
  
• Debug real-world Kubernetes issues, including:
  • etcd instability
    
  • networking overlays and CNI failures
    
  • ingress/controller edge cases
    
  • persistent volume failures
    
  • node pressure and eviction behavior
    
  • cluster upgrade regressions
    

GitOps / ArgoCD Operations

• Design and maintain GitOps workflows using ArgoCD
  
• Manage promotion pipelines across environments and regions
  
• Resolve drift detection issues, sync conflicts, reconciliation failures, and deployment ordering challenges
  
• Build safe rollback and progressive deployment strategies
  

Candidates should know why ArgoCD breaks, not just how to click “Sync.”

Infrastructure as Code

• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules for multi-region infrastructure
  
• Manage state strategy, workspace isolation, secrets handling, and provider complexity
  
• Solve real-world Terraform pain points, including:
  • state corruption and locking conflicts
    
  • module version drift
    
  • provider upgrade regressions
    
  • dependency graph surprises
    
  • cross-account provisioning complexity
    

CI/CD Engineering

• Build and optimize production CI/CD pipelines
  
• Improve deployment speed, safety, and repeatability
  
• Troubleshoot flaky pipelines, artifact inconsistencies, race conditions, environment drift, and rollback failures
  

Reliability & Observability

• Establish SLIs/SLOs and production health standards
  
• Build alerting, monitoring, tracing, and incident response workflows
  
• Lead root cause analysis and postmortem improvements
  
• Reduce operational toil through automation
  

Why This Role

You’ll own foundational infrastructure decisions for globally distributed systems and help build resilient platform capabilities at international scale.

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who wants meaningful ownership and complex technical problems.

Requirements

Required Experience

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering

• Deep production experience with:

• Kubernetes

• ArgoCD

• Terraform

• AWS

• CI/CD systems

• Linux systems administration

• Infrastructure automation

Preferred Experience

• Experience operating infrastructure across multiple continents
  
• Experience with hybrid cloud or physical data center integration
  
• Strong networking knowledge, including BGP, VPNs, routing, DNS, and load balancing
  
• Experience with security hardening and compliance in production systems
  
• Software engineering background with Go, Python, or Bash
  

What “Senior” Means Here

You have enough production experience to have strong opinions because you have seen failures firsthand.

You know:

• why Terraform plans sometimes lie

• why ArgoCD syncs can fail for non-obvious reasons

• why Kubernetes upgrades can ruin your week

• why “works in staging” means very little

• why multi-region failover diagrams often fail in production

• why observability usually breaks exactly when needed most

You’ve solved these problems repeatedly and improved systems because of those lessons.