Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Salt Lake City, UT

Are you passionate about building highly reliable, scalable cloud platforms that power mission-critical applications? We're partnering with an innovative technology company that's investing heavily in platform reliability, automation, and observability. This is an opportunity to have a significant impact on the engineering organization by shaping reliability standards, improving developer experience, and helping build resilient systems that support a rapidly growing platform.

You'll work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure, partnering with engineering teams to improve system performance, automate operations, and establish best practices across Kubernetes-based services. If you enjoy solving complex distributed systems challenges and creating tools that make engineers more productive, we'd love to talk.

What You'll Do

• Define and evolve Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) that align platform performance with customer and business expectations.

• Build and standardize monitoring, alerting, and observability practices across engineering teams using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).

• Develop scalable observability solutions leveraging metrics, logs, traces, and distributed tracing technologies such as OpenTelemetry.

• Evaluate and implement modern observability platforms and integrations, leading proof-of-concepts and defining adoption strategies.

• Establish reliability standards for Kubernetes-based applications, including scaling strategies, deployment safety, resource optimization, dashboards, and alerting.

• Design automation that reduces manual effort, streamlines operations, and improves incident response and recovery.

• Lead high-severity incident response efforts, facilitate postmortems, and drive long-term reliability improvements through measurable action plans.

• Participate in an on-call rotation while continually improving monitoring quality and reducing unnecessary alert noise.

• Partner with software engineers and platform teams to build resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure and operational best practices.

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a similar infrastructure-focused engineering role.

• Strong experience supporting production workloads in AWS and Kubernetes environments.

• Demonstrated success implementing SLOs, SLIs, and reliability engineering best practices.

• Experience designing observability solutions that provide actionable insights while minimizing operational noise.

• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, preferably with Terraform.

• Experience automating operational workflows and building reusable engineering standards.

• Familiarity with distributed systems and modern data platforms including technologies such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, or similar.

• Experience with multiple observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Splunk, CloudWatch, ELK, or comparable technologies.

• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across distributed production environments.

• Experience leading incident response and driving continuous operational improvements.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence engineering teams through collaboration, technical leadership, and practical solutions.

Why This Opportunity?

• Join a high-performing engineering organization where reliability is a strategic priority.

• Work with modern cloud-native technologies including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and OpenTelemetry.

• Influence engineering standards and platform architecture across multiple teams.

• Solve complex technical challenges at scale while helping shape the future of the platform.

• Collaborative hybrid environment with four days in the office and one remote day each week.

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement plan, generous paid time off, parental leave, and additional wellness benefits.

PrincePerelson & Associates is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all provisions of the EEO and ADA laws. We do not discriminate in our employment practices on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including sexual orientation and sexual identity), age, genetic information, parental status, military status, disability, or any non-merit-based factors or other federal, state, or locally protected class. All applicants applying for U.S. job openings must be authorized to work in the United States.