As a Senior SRE at Remote, you’ll work with a high degree of autonomy on complex reliability and platform problems, owning the plan and execution of features and projects within our SRE/Platform domain. You’ll contribute to the platform’s architecture and reliability strategy, translating ambiguous requirements into robust, maintainable solutions and raise the technical bar of the engineers around you while collaborating closely with product and security teams in an async-first, fully remote environment.

You’ll work AI-natively day to day and build reusable AI workflows that make the whole team faster and more reliable, not just yourself., * Lead solution discovery and delivery for reliability and infrastructure problems with real ambiguity, complexity, or scope. Autonomously, coordinating with other contributors where needed.

• Contribute to the platform’s architecture, tooling, and roadmap. Influence team priorities and advocate for technical initiatives.
• Help define and operate reliability practices for our platform: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, alerting, observability. Take responsibility for the team’s operational stance, using support/incident metrics to shape technical strategy.
• Resolve cross-team requests, identify systemic issues, and turn recurring ones into reusable fixes and runbooks rather than one-off answers.
• Work AI-natively and operationalise it for the team: use agentic workflows by default; build reusable prompts, skills, and tooling embedded in the codebase so others ship faster, safely; design agent-ready systems (clean interfaces, good observability) that make AI-assisted changes easy to review. Establish shared standards and domain-level guardrails (secure-by-default patterns, CI protections, AI-assisted review practices).
• Mentor and give timely, actionable feedback to less-senior engineers; participate in hiring, onboarding, and RFC discussions.
• Collaborate with Security on platform hardening and threat mitigation; contribute to capacity and cost-efficiency of the infrastructure.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations to rapidly resolve issues and maintain system reliability., Please choose the country in which you are located.* Select… Work eligibility is extremely important. Are you legally eligible to work in the country where you’re planning to work from?* Select… Will you require sponsorship if you join Remote?* Select… Do you have a non-compete in place with your previous or current employer that prevents you from working for us?* Select… How did you hear about Remote?* Select… What pronouns should we use to refer to you?* Select… Have you ever been hired through Remote as a third party?* Select… If you were previously employed by Remote, please share the email you used for signing in. If not, please put N/A*

Which of these have you personally done in production? (select all that apply) *

1. Defined or owned SLOs / SLIs / error budgets
2. Scaled a system to handle growth in traffic or data volume
3. Operated production databases (backups, migrations, replication, performance)
4. Did capacity planning or performance tuning
5. Led incident response and/or wrote postmortems
6. None of these

Which of these have you personally configured or operated in production? (select all that apply) *

1. Compute instances (EC2 / GCE / Azure VMs)
2. Managed Kubernetes (EKS / GKE / AKS)
3. IAM roles & policies
4. Networking (load balancers, VPC, DNS)
5. Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / Pulumi / CloudFormation)
6. Elastic Mesh Gateway
7. None of the above

Platform / building for others (select all that apply) *

1. Built or maintained CI/CD pipelines other teams used
2. Created reusable IaC modules / templates others adopted
3. Built internal tooling, services, or self-service platforms for other teams
4. Wrote runbooks / golden paths others follow
5. None of these

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• Solid professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering.
• Solid hands-on Kubernetes: operating and scaling production clusters and container tooling (Docker) and its ecosystem.
• Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS (or similar).
• Strong infrastructure-as-code practice with Terraform.
• Experience with reliability frameworks: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alerting strategies.
• Solid observability background: OpenTelemetry, Grafana/Prometheus or similar.
• Proficiency with CI/CD (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar) and deployment automation.
• Comfortable with Golang, Bash/scripting; broader programming a plus.
• Practical, embedded use of AI in infra/ops/dev work, agentic workflows with concrete, observable results, not just familiarity with the tools.
• Clear and thoughtful communication, especially in an async-first, global setting
• Proactive, curious, and comfortable taking ownership of challenges
• Collaborative and respectful across cultures, time zones, and backgrounds

Nice to have

• Experience with 1 back-end programming language (Elixir, Nodejs, Python, etc)
• Experience running and configuring Linux systems in a non-cloud environment
• Security knowledge and capabilities from a defensive and offensive standpoint

1. Interview with HM
2. (async) Infrastructure exercise (you’re not expected to spend more than 2 - 4 hours)
3. Interview with the team (without any manager in the call so you can really get to know the people and ask all you want to ask)
4. Bar Raiser Interview
5. Executive Interview
6. Offer + Background check (Veremark & Remote)

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Remote’s Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

The annual salary range for this full-time position is

$53,300 - $119,850 USD, Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:

• work from anywhere
• flexible paid time off
• flexible working hours (we are async)
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• budget towards co-working spaces, learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
• mental health support services
• stock options
• home office budget & IT equipment

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge - navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!