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# Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** AppFolio, Inc.
- **Location:** Dallas, TX, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $138,400.0 - $173,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon S3, Relational Databases, Linux, Amazon DynamoDB, Web Servers, Python (Programming Language), MySQL, Ruby on Rails, Reliability Engineering, Ruby, Pulumi, Load Balancing, Cloudformation, Kubernetes, Performance Monitor, Route53, Terraform
- **Published:** September 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.themuse.com/jobs/appfolio/sr-site-reliability-engineer-observability-6b2de6

## About the Role

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys supporting teams, helping them become more self-sufficient, and building reliable, simple systems. This position will require on-call responsibilities. Lastly, you have strong communication skills and enjoy working on a team that values openness, integrity, ownership, and attention to detail.
Must-Haves

 * Experience developing Service Level Indicators and Service Level Objectives for the above systems.
 * Proven ability to diagnose and monitor performance and reliability issues across the stack: relational databases, web servers, networking, OS, containers, load balancers, etc. You'll chase down performance problems and uncover root causes of system failures.
 * Strong coding background: you've written code to perform critical tasks or in production. The exact language doesn't matter, though we give bonus points for Go, Ruby, or Python.
 * Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)
 * Expertise with Kubernetes or other container orchestration tooling and technology patterns
 * Experience with Amazon Web Services (commonly EKS, RDS Aurora, Lambda, S3, EBS, Route53, DynamoDB, and VPCs)
 * Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years industry experience, or equivalent work experience

Ways To Stand Out From The Crowd

 * Mastery experience with some areas of our tech like Ruby on Rails, Kubernetes, MySQL, Linux, container orchestration, Networking, etc.



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