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# Lead Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Movable Ink
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $184,200.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Apache HTTP Server, Code Review, Linux, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Node.Js, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Ruby, Shell Script, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Grafana, Multi-Cloud, Kubernetes, Cassandra, Apache Kafka, Terraform, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d2918af02177ae12

## About the Role

* Proven track record in Site Reliability or Software Engineering, designing, building, and owning scalable, resilient services with a focus on long-term reliability strategy
 * Deep expertise in architecting and operating complex distributed systems such as Apache Pulsar, Apache Kafka, Grafana Loki, ScyllaDB/Cassandra, with the ability to guide teams through distributed system challenges
 * Designing and owning automation strategies to manage services at scale, with expertise in establishing performance analysis frameworks and mentoring others on diagnostics and resolution
 * Deep, hands-on experience (6+ years) in Site Reliability or Software Engineering, specifically leading and shaping multi-cloud architecture and strategy (AWS and GCP).
 * Experience architecting and leading large-scale observability platforms, including defining observability standards and SLO frameworks. We use Prometheus and Thanos with Grafana Alloy, Loki and Tempo
 * Experience leading on-call excellence, including driving improvements to monitoring and alerting strategies, automating runbooks and mentoring team members on incident response best practices. Every member of the SRE team does a week long on-call rotation
 * Expert-level proficiency with infrastructure as code, including defining IaC standards and patterns across teams. We use Terraform and Chef
 * Advanced Kubernetes expertise, including cluster architecture design, multi-tenancy strategies, and guiding teams on container orchestration best practices. We use EKS and GKE
 * Proficiency in multiple programming languages with the ability to design and review code that meets reliability standards. We use NodeJS, Golang, Ruby, Python and shell scripting
 * Advanced Linux systems expertise, with the ability to diagnose complex system-level issues and mentor others on performance tuning and troubleshooting

## Description

* Define and drive the automation strategy for infrastructure tooling, establishing standards that minimize manual work, increase performance and reduce incident frequency and severity of incidents
 * Own the design, reliability and evolution of core platform applications, mentoring team members on best practices and ensuring systems meet long-term business objectives
 * Architect and lead the logging platform strategy, driving its design and balancing availability, retention and cost optimization
 * Establish capacity planning and performance management frameworks, proactively identifying scaling opportunities and guiding teams through complex troubleshooting scenarios
 * Lead cross-functional reliability initiatives with SRE and service engineering teams, influencing architectural decisions and championing practices that ensure resilient service delivery
 * Demonstrate a high level of autonomy in anticipating, identifying, and addressing systemic weaknesses and opportunities for platform improvement without direct supervision.


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