Site Reliability Engineer

Modulate, Inc.
Somerville, United States of America
11 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Shift work
Languages
English
Compensation
$ 200K

Job location

Remote
Somerville, United States of America

Tech stack

API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Debugging
Linux
Distributed Systems
Python
Reliability Engineering
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Load Balancing
System Availability
Cloudformation
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Performance Monitor
Cloudwatch
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Terraform
Pagerduty

Job description

Modulate is the leader in conversational voice intelligence. We enable enterprises to deeply understand how people communicate and take timely action based on those insights.

Our products help detect harm, prevent fraud, and build safer, more trusted online and real-world voice environments. We are building a Conversation Intelligence Platform - APIs, workflows, and applications that bring voice understanding to customers at enterprise scale.

We're looking for our first Site Reliability Engineer to own and scale the reliability of our production systems. This role will be critical in ensuring high availability across our Developer APIs platform and Enterprise products, while building the foundations for monitoring, incident response, and operational excellence as we grow.

Your Impact

You will play a foundational role in ensuring Modulate's systems are reliable, scalable, and enterprise-ready.

  • Own the reliability and availability of Modulate's production infrastructure
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems from the ground up
  • Establish sustainable on-call practices that balance reliability with team health
  • Partner with engineering and leadership to shape infrastructure and reliability strategy
  • Help define how Modulate delivers enterprise-grade uptime and performance

What You Will Do

  • Own and operate production systems supporting Modulate's APIs and enterprise products
  • Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and observability systems
  • Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortem processes
  • Build and improve on-call rotations and operational workflows
  • Collaborate with engineers to deploy, maintain, and scale distributed systems
  • Partner with leadership on infrastructure decisions, roadmaps, and reliability goals
  • Evaluate and support deployment models including cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments
  • Continuously improve system performance, resilience, and scalability

Requirements

Do you have experience in System performance monitoring?, * Experience deploying and maintaining production software systems

  • Experience building monitoring and alerting systems for production environments
  • Experience with on-call rotations and incident response
  • Strong experience with AWS, Python, and Linux
  • Familiarity with tools such as CloudWatch, SNS, PagerDuty, or similar technologies
  • Strong debugging, systems thinking, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively during high-pressure incidents
  • Experience working in fast-paced or early-stage environments

Nice to Have

  • Experience with AWS services such as EC2, load balancers, RDS, SQS, SES, and CloudWatch
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Experience supporting high-scale, distributed systems
  • Familiarity with hybrid or on-prem deployment models

Benefits & conditions

Pulled from the full job description

  • Health insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Vision insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account, At Modulate, we prioritize people and sustainability-because doing great work requires feeling supported and safe. Some of our key benefits include:
  • Competitive salary + equity
  • Full health, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible PTO, with a strong culture of taking it
  • Weekly team lunches with dietary accommodations
  • Hybrid work: core in-office days with flexible remote options
  • Regular leadership and industry learning sessions
  • Support for career development and continued learning
  • Up to 8 weeks work-from-anywhere policy
  • A deeply inclusive, human-centered culture

Pay Transparency

Modulate believes in transparency as a cornerstone of equity and trust. Compensation for this role is based on seniority, skills, and experience.

Salary: $150,000 - $200,000 Equity: Offered Other perks: HSA, FSA, 15 holidays, professional growth resources

About Modulate

Modulate is on a mission to make voice a force for good online. Our tools help communities thrive by proactively detecting toxic behavior, protecting user identity, and empowering safety teams. We're trusted by leaders in gaming and beyond-and we're growing fast.

We believe that great cultures don't just happen. That's why we've built a foundation of intentional systems: from bias-reducing hiring practices to transparent pay to tools that help teams collaborate across communication styles. At Modulate, we treat people like people-and we're building technology that does the same.

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