Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Remote Eligible

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Remote, you'll play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining the infrastructure that powers our global platform. You'll focus on scalability, automation, and reliability while collaborating closely with product and security teams in an async-first, fully remote environment. This is a hands-on role where technical expertise meets values-driven teamwork.

What You'll Bring

• Solid professional experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering or SysOps role
• Expert level using:
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar)
  • Docker
  • Bash scripting
• 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
• Strong alignment with Remote's values: intensity, transparency, and intensity

Nice to have

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

What You'll Do

• Manage and improve our existing infrastructure
• Help build the next generation of our platform using tools like Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker
• Streamline and automate deployment processes to enable fast, reliable delivery
• Partner with our Security team to stay ahead of potential threats and patches
• Collaborate with engineers and product teams in an async-first way, improving scalability, stability, and reliability across our systems.
• We work primarily in an asynchronous way, which means you'll have a high degree of ownership over how you manage and prioritize your work. While the team shares an overall vision and goals, we don't rely on managers assigning day-to-day tasks. Instead, we value people who can identify opportunities, spot issues, and take the initiative to drive projects forward independently.
• Collaborate to build and improve our observability infrastructure for monitoring, logging, and tracing.
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations to rapidly resolve issues and maintain system reliability.
• Contribute to a supportive and transparent team culture by sharing knowledge, providing thoughtful feedback, and taking ownership of solutions

Practicals

• You'll report to: SRE Team Lead
• Team: Engineering
• Location: For this hire, due to diversity and timezones requirements, we're prioritizing Europe
• Start date: As soon as possible

Application Process

1. Interview with recruiter
2. Interview with HM
3. (async) Infrastructure exercise (you're not expected to spend more than 2 - 4 hours)
4. 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)
5. Bar Raiser Interview
6. Executive Interview - VP of Engineering

The annual salary range for this full-time position is $51,000 - $115,000 USD

Benefits

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
• mental health support services
• stock options
• learning budget
• home office budget & IT equipment
• budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How You'll Plan Your Day (and Life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How To Apply

1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardized language we use here at Remote.
3. If you don't have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to. At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.