Site Reliability Engineer
WorkOS · Remote · United States & Canada ·
COMPENSATION
$175k – $275k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Fully remote (PST/PDT)
- TypeScript + AWS
- SRE focus
- Equity offered
- Healthcare included
The Site Reliability Engineering team at WorkOS maintains the speed and resilience of a platform handling hundreds of millions of requests. You will build systems that minimize downtime and improve service performance while working across the stack with infrastructure and product engineers.
As an early member of this team, you will help shape reliability practices for enterprise-ready developer tools. The role focuses on complex systems, observability, and making reliability a core product feature for customers including major AI companies.
What you'll do
- Design systems and tooling to enhance platform reliability and performance
- Collaborate with teams to ensure services are production-ready and observable
- Define and measure SLIs and SLOs to guide reliability improvements
- Write and optimize backend systems in TypeScript for maintainability
- Lead incident response, postmortems, and follow-through on risks
- Develop internal automations to simplify system operations and scaling
- Participate in on-call rotation to resolve production incidents
- Contribute to architecture discussions focusing on operability
What you'll need
- Based in PST or PDT time zone
- Experience operating and scaling production systems on AWS
- Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and root cause analysis
- Comfort working across compute, networking, and storage layers
- Strong debugging skills and ability to trace issues across services
- Ability to work independently and drive projects to resolution
Nice to have
- Familiarity with Kubernetes or similar orchestration systems
- Exposure to observability stacks like Prometheus or Datadog
- Interest in working within a TypeScript-based codebase
Stack
- TypeScript
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
How you'll work
- Fully remote arrangement
- Must be based in PST/PDT time zone
- Participation in on-call rotation required
What you get
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for family
- 401k matching plan
- Competitive equity package
- 20 days paid vacation plus 10 holidays
- Unlimited sick leave
- 12 weeks fully paid parental leave
- Monthly fitness and wellness stipends
- FSA and disability insurance options