Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Description:

• We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our growing Platform Infrastructure group, Site Reliability Engineering team.
• This position reports to the Engineering Manager - Infrastructure.
• The role involves applying technical and domain expertise to solve complex technical and business challenges.
• Responsibilities include responding to and assisting with production incidents in collaboration with product teams.
• The engineer will participate in design discussions, code reviews, and project-related team meetings.
• The role requires working with other engineers to develop innovative solutions that meet business needs concerning functionality, performance, observability, scalability, and reliability.
• Key tasks include building, deploying, and maintaining observability platforms for metrics gathering and dashboarding.
• The engineer will lead software and system design initiatives using cloud-native design patterns.
• Collaboration with other teams to improve BenchSci’s Incident Response processes is essential.
• The engineer will assist teams in responding to, mitigating, and remediating production incidents.
• Writing effective post-mortems and improving reliability culture and processes is part of the role.
• The engineer will promote SRE best practices and help reduce toil by automating team and business processes.
• Partnering with engineering and product stakeholders to refine requirements is expected.
• Communication of cross-cutting decisions to all potentially impacted teams is necessary.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 5+ years of experience working as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer is preferred.
• Expert knowledge of incident response, observability, and reliability tools and techniques in a cloud-native environment is required, with Google Cloud preferred and AWS experience valuable.
• Experience with cloud design patterns and developing specialized application stacks on cloud services is necessary, with Google Cloud considered an asset.
• Proficiency in working with Python and JavaScript/TypeScript codebases is required.
• The candidate should have an eagerness to share their own ideas and an openness to the ideas of others.

Benefits:

• The position offers an engaging remote-first culture.
• A great compensation package that includes BenchSci equity options is provided.
• There is a robust vacation policy plus an additional vacation day every year.
• Company closures for 14 additional days throughout the year are included.
• Flex time for sick days, personal days, and religious holidays is available.
• Comprehensive health and dental benefits are offered.
• An annual learning & development budget is provided.
• A one-time home office set-up budget is available upon joining BenchSci.
• An annual lifestyle spending account allowance is included.
• Generous parental leave benefits with a top-up plan or paid time off options are offered.
• The ability to save for retirement with a company match is provided.