Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Sanity · Remote · Remote in the United States or Canada (East Coast/ET) ·
COMPENSATION
€•• – ••k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior SRE role
- Fully remote (US)
- GCP + Kubernetes
- High-scale systems
- EU time overlap
Join the infrastructure team at Sanity.io to ensure the platform remains scalable, fast, and safe for deployment. You will work on systems handling approximately 75,000 requests per second, supporting major clients like Figma and Riot Games. The role focuses on stability, security, and performance across a distributed global architecture.
What you'll do
- Design and operate shared platform foundations including GCP infrastructure and networking
- Diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems under high request volumes
- Modernize edge, caching, and gateway layers using Fastly
- Improve reliability through better dashboards, alerting standards, and incident response
- Build automation and golden paths to streamline safe engineering deployments
- Mentor engineers via code reviews, design reviews, and pairing sessions
- Participate in on-call rotation and support developer on-call initiatives
What you'll need
- Based in the United States with overlap for European engineering hours
- Five or more years of experience in an SRE on-call rotation
- Strong background in SRE/DevOps tools, processes, and culture
- Experience managing scalable, highly available cloud-based applications
- Proficiency with Kubernetes for orchestrating containerized applications
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with observability stacks such as Prometheus
- Comfortable working with CDNs, edge networks, and caching layers
- Proven ability to handle incidents and communicate during high-pressure situations
Stack
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- ElasticSearch
- PostgreSQL
- NATS
- Kong
- Fastly
- Google Cloud Platform
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Must be based in the United States
- Requires reasonable overlap with European engineering hours
What you get
- Comprehensive health plans and perks
- Competitive stock options program
- Location-based salary structure
- Flexible and trust-based work environment
- Support for long-term professional and personal growth