Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Summary

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, scalability, performance, and security of our production systems. This role blends software engineering and systems engineering to build resilient infrastructure, improve automation, and proactively reduce operational risk. The Senior SRE will serve as a technical leader, driving best practices across observability, incident response, and platform stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems


• Lead reliability improvements across production and non-production environments


• Own and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms


• Drive incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews


• Implement automation to reduce manual operational work


• Partner with Engineering, Security, and Product to support platform needs


• Establish and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets


• Lead capacity planning and performance tuning efforts


• Improve deployment, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices


• Identify and mitigate reliability and scalability risks before they impact customers


• Mentor and guide junior engineers and contribute to team technical standards


• Participate in on-call rotation and help mature on-call processes

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or related roles


• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)


• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, etc.)


• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)


• Strong Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals


• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines


• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, etc.)


• Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills


• Experience with scripting and automation (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing multi-region or highly distributed systems


• Experience with security best practices and compliance in production environments


• Experience supporting high-availability SaaS platforms


• Experience in a fast-growing or PE-backed environment


• Experience influencing reliability culture across engineering teams

Key Competencies

• Ownership and accountability


• Strong communication during incidents and escalations


• Bias toward automation and continuous improvement


• Ability to balance speed and stability


• Mentorship and technical leadership


• Calm under pressure

What Success Looks Like in This Role

• Improved system uptime and reduced incident frequency


• Faster incident detection and resolution times


• Increased automation and reduced manual operational work


• Clear SLOs and reliability metrics adopted by engineering teams


• Strong cross-team trust in platform stability

What We Offer:

• Competitive salaries


• Medical, dental, and vision benefits


• Company-paid life insurance


• Flexible schedules


• Unlimited PTO


• Volunteer Time Off


• Sick leave


• Parental leave


• 9 company-paid holidays

The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice. Bolt On Technology is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, genetic information, disability status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.