Site Reliability Engineer - SRE
Remote · 5+ years experience · Full-time · Remote · Posted Oct 14, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 5+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
About the role
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Drivetrain, you will be a cornerstone of our engineering organization, ensuring our fast-growing SaaS platform remains highly available, performant, and secure.
- You will take ownership of our multi-cloud infrastructure, drive automation, champion observability, and collaborate closely with development teams to build a culture of reliability from code commit to production.
Responsibilities
- Architect, manage, and continuously optimize highly available cloud infrastructure across both AWS and GCP.
- Lead the design, deployment, and management of scalable Kubernetes clusters using configuration management tools like Kustomize.
- Implement and maintain service mesh technologies to secure, control, and observe service-to-service communication.
- Architect, maintain, and optimize robust CI/CD pipelines using Git and Jenkins.
- Write, review, and maintain Terraform modules to provision and manage cloud resources predictably and safely.
- Develop robust Python scripts and tooling to automate routine maintenance, data backups, scaling operations, and system recovery processes.
- Design and enhance our observability stack to provide deep, real-time insights into system health utilizing tools including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack, AWS CloudWatch, and GCP Operations Suite.
- Own the incident response lifecycle, facilitate blameless postmortems, and define, track, and enforce SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
- Collaborate closely with software engineers early in the development lifecycle to ensure applications are designed for deployability, scalability, and resilience.
- Proactively identify system bottlenecks, build internal developer tooling, and maintain comprehensive documentation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure roles, preferably within a fast-paced SaaS environment.
- Deep, proven proficiency in AWS (EC2, EKS, RDS, VPC, IAM, S3) AND GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, IAM, Cloud Storage).
- Expert-level knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes, including advanced deployment strategies and lifecycle management.
- Strong programming skills in Python and extensive experience with Terraform.
- Hands-on expertise building dashboards and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, and log aggregation stacks (ELK/EFK).
- Solid understanding of cloud networking (VPC peering, load balancing, DNS) and zero-trust security principles in a containerized environment.
Workplace
- Remote-first company headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area
Skills
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Kustomize
- Istio
- Linkerd
- Git
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- Python
- Prometheus
- Grafana
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- ELK
- EFK
- Docker
