Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

As the Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will be critical in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of Load Up's next-generation platform—a modern, cloud-native microservices architecture built for enterprise scale. You will work closely with the CTO, Director of Architecture, and engineering teams to build, optimize, and maintain a world-class AWS infrastructure to support our mission‑critical, multi‑tenant enterprise systems.

• Infrastructure Management:
  Design, provision, and manage a scalable AWS infrastructure supporting our cloud‑native microservices platform.
• Reliability & Observability:
  Build and maintain frameworks for logging, metrics, tracing, and dashboards to ensure deep visibility into system health.
• Incident Leadership:
  Lead incident management and post‑mortem processes, driving root cause analysis and long‑term remediation.
• Security & Compliance:
  Enforce infrastructure security best practices (IAM policies, secrets management, network segmentation) and support SOC 2 requirements.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):
  Develop and maintain IaC using tools such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation to ensure consistent, repeatable provisioning.
• Database Optimization:
  Manage and optimize relational databases (Postgre
  
  SQL) at scale, including replication, failover, and performance tuning.
• Capacity & Efficiency:
  Guide architectural reviews for resilience and fault tolerance while driving capacity planning and cloud cost optimization.

• Experience: Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering or 8+ years of practical SRE/Dev Ops experience provisioning large‑scale, multi‑tenant SaaS applications.
• AWS Mastery: Extensive hands‑on experience with services including EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, S3, Cloud Watch, IAM, Route 53, and API Gateway.
• IaC & Automation: Deep, proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Container Orchestration: Hands‑on experience with orchestration platforms supporting backend microservices (Java/Spring Boot, Node.js).
• Database Reliability: Strong knowledge of Postgre
  
  SQL optimization, connection pooling, and query performance tuning.
• Production Support: Proven experience handling production support, on‑call rotations, and running blameless post‑mortems.

• An Ownership‑Driven Engineer who values long‑term system reliability and architectural resilience over short‑term hotfixes.
• An Elite Communicator capable of translating complex backend infrastructure architecture into clear concepts for non‑technical stakeholders.
• A Security Champion who naturally designs with least‑privilege access and data isolation patterns in mind.

• Competitive Compensation – Salary that rewards your technical expertise and infrastructure ownership.
• Health & Wellness Coverage – Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.
• Flexible Spending & Savings – Choose between an FSA or HSA to manage your health expenses your way.
• Generous Paid Time Off – Take the time you need to rest, recharge, or explore life outside of work.
• 401(k) with 5% Company Match – Start building your future now—we’ll help you save for it.
• The “Load Up Extras” – Employee Recognition Program, Monthly Lifestyle Stipends, and Referral Bonuses.