Senior Site Reliability Engineer; REMOTE

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: REMOTE US

Compensation: $140,000 / year

Who We’re Looking For

The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team’s centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes;

lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes.

While we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

Fixed Position Rate: $140,000

This role carries a single, non-negotiable Fixed Position Rate to ensure absolute equity and eliminate negotiation bias.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout
• Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools
• Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS
• Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
• Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas
• Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness
• Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge base
• Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools
• Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment
• Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues
• Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows
• Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety

What You’ll Contribute
Required (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack):

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• CI/CD (Git Hub Actions)
• Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests)
• AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3)
• Fin Ops and cloud cost optimization
• Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
• Agentic AI (Claude Code)
• Scripting (Shell, Python)
• Track record of collaboration and mentorship
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills
• Continuous learning
• Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems

Preferred:

• Kafka:
  Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC)
• Flink
• Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS)
• Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance)
• Python (SQL Alchemy, FastAPI)
• GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation)
• REST API
• Git Ops (ArgoCD)
• Hashicorp Vault
• Redis
• Memcached

Education & Experience:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 5+ years experience in Ops, Dev Ops, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles.

What We Provide

• Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
• 401(k) with employer match
• 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
• 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
• Monthly wellness allowance
• Annual professional and personal development allowance
• Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
• Flexible work location opportunities
• Employer matching toward charitable contributions