Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Design and implement services, APIs, and automation tooling that improve cloud infrastructure reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Write production-quality code in Go, Python, or similar. Lead design reviews and set code quality standards within the team.
• Build robust, easy-to-use foundational platforms and tools that enable engineering teams to provision services rapidly, consistently, securely, and cost-effectively.
• Architect cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS, including Kubernetes platforms, networking, and identity boundaries.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and incident response. Use operational experience to identify systemic reliability risks and drive platform improvements.
• Foresee and mitigate risks in infrastructure design: single points of failure, scaling bottlenecks, security gaps, and compliance drift.
• Influence and educate the engineering organization to adopt new and improved architectural patterns.
• Leverage AI tooling and agentic workflows to accelerate engineering delivery and operational automation.
• Provide robust documentation for use by engineers to promote self‑service.
• Mentor junior and mid‑level engineers through code review, design guidance, and pairing.

• This position involves handling of classified federal data; under federal regulations, it is open to U.S. citizens only.
• 8+ years of applicable experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.
• Experience designing and operating cloud platforms at scale across Azure, AWS, or similar.
• Proficiency in one or more managed languages (Go, Python, Java, C#) in the context of building services, not just scripting.
• Experience architecting and operating Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS, or similar) at production scale.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, CDK, or similar) for managing multi‑environment, multi‑region infrastructure.
• Experience utilizing CI/CD platforms to automate provisioning infrastructure, software builds, tests, and releases.
• Experience using observability tools such as APM, logging, and metrics to assist with debugging issues.
• Track record of leading design reviews, writing technical proposals, and setting engineering standards within a team.
• Builder‑operator mindset with proven production ownership (uptime, SLOs, on‑call, incident leadership).
• Experience mentoring engineers and conducting technical interviews.
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools to accelerate engineering workflows is a strong plus.

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Development Programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

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