Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Prove

• 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Software Engineering roles with a strong infrastructure, operations, and/or production engineering aspect also qualify
• 4+ years of experience in technical project leadership
• Deep understanding of cloud platforms, preferably AWS
• Expert knowledge of observability platforms and practices (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, ELK stack)
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Spacelift, OpenTofu)
• Skilled proficiency in at least one programming language (Java, Go, Python)
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Prove we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles

Desirable

• Department: Platform Engineering
• Reports To: Manager, Site Reliability
• We are seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, deploying, and maintaining high-availability infrastructure leveraging automation, infrastructure-as code, and advanced monitoring
• You’ll partner closely with our application engineering teams to ensure our services meet the highest standards of reliability, performance, and security
• Staff SREs at Prove are responsible for driving 99.999% uptime for existing and developing products. Implementing, automating, and developing infrastructure are methods to these outcomes. Qualified candidates will be well versed in the difference between methods and ownership of outcomes and be able to demonstrate and document their previous relevant experience
• Guide infrastructure system design and application architecture within Platform Engineering and across engineering teams
• Develop and implement infrastructure-as-code standards using tools like Terraform and/or OpenTofu
• Act as a strong technical partner with our engineering teams
• Champion observability with product owners and engineering teams
• Improve new and existing systems by increasing reliability, performance, and scalability
• Automate routine operational tasks to reduce toil and improve efficiency
• Ensure infrastructure security compliance and implement least-privilege access controls
• Enhance existing CI/CD pipelines and feedback loops for maximum reliability
• Enable auto-scaling infrastructure based on custom metrics for applications and critical observability infrastructure
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation, respond to our most critical alerts and resolve challenging events
• Conduct thorough post-incident reviews and implement preventative measures
• Use observability data to perform root cause analysis and identify system improvements