Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Rootly

• In short, this role is designed for individuals that crave ownership, stimulating technical challenges, love shipping fast, and are mission driven
• 5+ years of experience in an SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering role
• 5+ years of experience writing software in a production environment
• Strong technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliability practices
• Strong understanding of observability, performance tuning, and scaling strategies
• Deep familiarity with incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD systems
• Hands-on experience supporting web or RPC services at meaningful scale
• You write code to solve infrastructure problems; not shell scripts alone, but production-grade software

Desirable

• This is an opportunity to join Rootly as an early SRE leader and shape our technical foundation. You will experience the balance of being scrappy and operating at scale
• What you’ll be doing one day could look very different the next. You will be empowered to identify opportunities that will help us grow and own it
• We won’t sugarcoat it, the work will be challenging, but it will also be one of the most rewarding learning experiences of your career
• Embed with product teams to enhance observability, reliability, and performance of their services
• Own our CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, monitoring systems, and incident response processes
• Build tools and automation to eliminate manual toil, improve engineering velocity and developer experience, and improve system reliability
• Collaborate deeply across engineering to understand systems at the code level and surface cross-cutting reliability, performance, and scaling concerns
• Architect and scale our infrastructure, ensuring best-in-class performance, availability, and operational excellence
• Drive capacity planning efforts to ensure our infrastructure is resilient and scalable as we grow
• Define and manage SLOs and error budgets in partnership with Engineering teams who own production services
• Be vocal - act as a strong voice and force of reliability, quality, performance, and scalability