Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Horizon3 · Remote · US, Remote ·
COMPENSATION
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Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Senior/Staff level
- Fully remote (US)
- Python + Terraform
- AWS + Kubernetes
- Equity package included
Join Horizon3 as a foundational SRE leader responsible for evolving the engineering-wide reliability strategy and operating model. You will set technical direction, establish service ownership standards, and drive adoption of observability practices across the NodeZero platform.
This position requires hands-on expertise in distributed systems and a proven ability to translate reliability knowledge into adopted organizational standards. You will collaborate with infrastructure, product, and security teams to improve incident response and operational readiness.
What you'll do
- Own and evolve engineering-wide SRE strategy, operating model, and reliability standards
- Lead cross-functional alignment to improve reliability, observability, and incident response
- Establish organization-wide approach to service ownership, SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
- Define and drive adoption of observability standards for service health and performance
- Set standards for dashboards, actionable alerting, runbooks, and escalation paths
- Raise the bar for incident management, command, on-call health, and post-incident learning
- Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation and help design a sustainable on-call model
What you'll need
- Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Deep knowledge of reliability engineering, observability, and incident management
- Proven ability to turn reliability knowledge into standards adopted by others
- Experience establishing SLIs, SLOs, actionable alerts, and service ownership
- Backend experience building automation to reduce toil and strengthen safeguards
- Experience leading high-severity incidents and improving response programs
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for technical designs and docs
Stack
- Python
- Terraform
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Datadog
- New Relic
- Grafana
- Gitlab CI
- ArgoCD
How you'll work
- Fully remote company with up to 10% travel for off-sites and kick-offs
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
What you get
- Competitive base salary range $199,750 - $270,000 annually
- Equity package in the form of stock options
- Health, vision, and dental insurance for employee and family
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave