Remote

Direct Hire - Cannot work C2C for this

Day-to-Day:

We’re looking for a REMOTE SRE who has a software engineering background—someone who can drop into ongoing projects, quickly mesh with cross-functional teams, and drive reliability outcomes with strong procedural and systems thinking. This is a backfill aimed at stabilizing and improving production systems and delivery practices.

Must-Haves:

Proven SRE experience (3+ years minimum at mid-staff level) owning reliability for production systems.
Software engineering background with strong procedural thinking; you’ve shipped production code.
Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or similar
.NET expertise as the primary skillset (services, APIs, performance, instrumentation).
Datadog hands-on experience (dashboards, monitors, logs, APM, alerting).
AWS foundational knowledge (you don’t need a pro cert; you can reason about core services and IAM).
Infrastructure as Code with Terraform (modules, state, environments).
Practical knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (how it works, how to debug and operate).
Familiarity with SQL/Postgres (querying, performance basics).

Preferred Qualifications:

Continued education and/or advanced degree(s) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
AWS certifications (such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Database - Specialty, or AWS Certified Security - Specialty)
Ability to understand and refactor complex legacy software
Experience in environments subject to HIPAA and/or PCI regulations
Professional experience with project lifecycle planning such as Agile/Scrum
Comfortable with Atlassian software suite (Jira, Confluence, and OpsGenie)
Experience with Rust
AWS Glue
AWS Neptune or other AWS purpose-built databases

Site Reliability Engineer

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