Senior Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help evolve and scale a modern Kubernetes-based infrastructure platform supporting mission-critical applications and engineering teams. This role is focused on platform reliability, automation, infrastructure engineering, and improving developer productivity through cloud-native technologies and DevOps best practices.

The ideal candidate has strong Kubernetes expertise, hands-on Golang development experience, and a deep understanding of distributed systems, infrastructure automation, observability, and production operations.

This is a remote-friendly role with flexible hours, provided there is overlap with Eastern Time business hours.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and improve highly available Kubernetes-based infrastructure platforms
• Partner with development, SRE, networking, and infrastructure teams to gather requirements and deliver scalable platform solutions
• Build and enhance automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows
• Customize and extend open-source platform components written in Golang
• Contribute fixes, enhancements, and integrations to internally maintained platform tooling
• Support zero-downtime deployments, upgrades, and platform migrations
• Improve cluster observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities
• Automate issue detection, remediation, and operational workflows
• Assist application teams with onboarding workloads into Kubernetes environments
• Help modernize legacy applications for containerized deployment architectures
• Evaluate and test emerging platform technologies and infrastructure tooling

Required Qualifications

• Strong production experience operating Kubernetes environments
• Hands-on Golang development experience
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes architecture, APIs, control plane, and node operations
• Experience implementing GitOps workflows using tools such as Argo CD or Flux
• Experience building automation and infrastructure tooling
• Experience with Helm and Kubernetes application packaging
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
• Strong Linux systems and networking knowledge
• Experience with ingress, reverse proxies, or service networking technologies
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability using Prometheus or similar tooling
• Experience with centralized logging and operational visibility platforms
• Strong troubleshooting and production incident response skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to or modifying open-source infrastructure tooling
• Experience with Kubernetes networking and traffic management concepts
• Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure patterns and distributed systems
• Experience with highly available infrastructure deployments
• Experience with persistent storage orchestration in containerized environments
• Familiarity with cloud providers or hybrid infrastructure environments
• Experience supporting developer enablement and platform engineering initiatives

Additional Information

• Remote-first engineering environment
• High-impact infrastructure and platform ownership
• Collaborative engineering culture with strong automation focus
• Opportunity to influence platform architecture and engineering standards