Rootly is hiring a
Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Summary

This is a ground floor opportunity as an early SRE at Rootly, a fast-growing incident management startup backed by reputable investors. The role involves participating in on-call rotation, defining and managing SLOs, building tools, embedding with feature delivery teams, and collaborating with other engineering teams to improve services. The company offers comprehensive health benefits, flexible vacation, learning opportunities, and more.

Requirements

• You have 5+ years of experience in an SRE or Infrastructure Engineering role
• You have 5+ years of experience writing software as a SWE or Software heavy SRE role
• You have strong technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliability practices
• You’ve supported services at web or RPC services at a significant scale

Responsibilities

• Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical Rootly services
• Participate in the definition and management of SLOs and error budgets for the Engineering teams that own services in production
• Build tools to support Rootly's processes
• Embed with feature delivery software teams to build and enhance observability, reliability, and availability of those services
• Work with other teams around Engineering to understand their systems and their challenges at the code level and identify improvements for Rootly Infrastructure to improve the services they own (contribute code where possible)

Preferred Qualifications

• You have experience solving infrastructure problems by writing software
• You have a big-picture perspective on systems and tools
• You can collaborate with other Engineering teams to understand their systems and help to improve them

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• 3 weeks vacation + unlimited sick/mental health days + company-wide shutdown EOY
• M2 MacBook Pro of choice
• $1,000 for health and wellness
• $1,000 for home office
• $1,000 for visiting a teammate located in a different geography
• WeWork membership
• Weekly happy hour on Friday
• Learning and advancement budget at your discretion
• Annual retreat - at least once a year we gather together in person 🏝️
• Ground floor opportunity to be an early member of a fast growing venture-backed startup