Site Reliability Engineer II

Summary

Join Earnest as a Site Reliability Engineer II and contribute to making higher education accessible and affordable for everyone. As an SRE II Engineer, you will set up and maintain comprehensive monitoring, create and refine playbooks, build dashboards, and adopt industry-standard practices to enhance the reliability and resilience of our site and systems.

Requirements

• 3+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering or a similar role
• Hands-on experience with cloud providers (AWS), containerization (Kubernetes, Docker), CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools

Responsibilities

• Set up and maintain comprehensive monitoring
• Create and refine playbooks
• Build dashboards
• Adopt industry-standard practices to enhance the reliability and resilience of our site and systems
• Develop and manage IaC to ensure reliable, scalable, and high-performance systems
• Implement and maintain both in-house and SaaS-based tools to measure SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs
• Identify opportunities for automation across the infrastructure
• Participate in on-call rotations, respond to incidents, conduct root cause analyses, and contribute to post-incident reviews
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance system design, support code deployments, and optimize system performance

Benefits

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Robust tuition reimbursement program
• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
• Competitive days of annual PTO
• Competitive parental leave