Remote Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

The job is for an SRE Team Lead at Curology, responsible for leading the delivery of high-quality solutions, providing technical guidance to the team, aligning projects with organizational goals, improving system resilience and scalability, participating in on-call rotation, and more. The candidate should have 7+ years of experience in AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, PHP, and Laravel.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience building infrastructure solutions in AWS using Infrastructure-as-Code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation
• 7+ years of experience working with Docker containers and related orchestration technologies (such as Kubernetes or ECS)
• 7+ years of experience building and deploying CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, PHP, and Laravel
• Experience with architectural patterns of large, high-scale applications
• Experience leading projects and initiatives that are wide in scale and complex in nature
• Experience working collaboratively in cross-functional teams with engineers in product and data groups
• Deep technical expertise; Writes, debugs, and refactors code while being mindful of tradeoffs, scalability, architecture, and code cleanliness
• Demonstrates mastery of their craft to solve problems in automation, infrastructure, and/or developer tooling
• Reliability & Quality; Experience leveraging observability tooling and practices such as SLOs to help engineering teams own the reliability and quality of the software they build
• Leadership - Define and deliver large, complex projects that may include coordination with non-technical stakeholders. Help define the SRE function and be a champion for it throughout the organization

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the delivery of high-quality and reliable solutions
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to the SRE team
• Set the direction for SRE projects, aligning them with organizational goals
• Help define and instrument Service-Level Objectives
• Lead initiatives to improve system resilience and scalability
• Host postmortems to share learnings, discover gaps, embrace transparency, and improve reliability across our services
• Lead projects from inception to completion
• Participate in an on-call rotation to assist in finding a resolution during incidents

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages
• Company Performance Incentive Plan
• Comprehensive benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees; flexible spending account; 401k
• Mental health & wellness programs
• $75 WFH stipend (remote employees)
• Home office setup stipend (remote employees)
• Minimum Time Off policy (unlimited PTO, with at least 3 weeks off) for exempt employees
• 11 company observed holidays
• Additional holidays: Curology days off (1 per quarter), 1 annual floating holiday (employee’s choice), and Gratitude Week (employees take the full week of Thanksgiving off; business critical teams observe different days)
• Paid parental leave
• Employee donation matching program
• Company-sponsored events
• Free subscription to Curology or Agency