Senior Site Reliability Engineer
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Canada.
This role offers the opportunity to design, improve, and operate highly scalable cloud infrastructure supporting a global technology platform.
You will work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure, helping build reliable systems that handle billions of daily requests.
The position requires strong technical expertise, a problem-solving mindset, and a passion for automation, performance, and operational excellence.
You will collaborate with engineering teams to strengthen platform reliability, improve observability, and develop solutions that support long-term scalability.
The ideal candidate thrives in complex environments, enjoys solving challenging infrastructure problems, and takes ownership of critical systems.
This is a hands-on engineering role where your contributions will directly impact platform stability, efficiency, and customer experience.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in Canada.
This role offers the opportunity to design, improve, and operate highly scalable cloud infrastructure supporting a global technology platform.
You will work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure, helping build reliable systems that handle billions of daily requests.
The position requires strong technical expertise, a problem-solving mindset, and a passion for automation, performance, and operational excellence.
You will collaborate with engineering teams to strengthen platform reliability, improve observability, and develop solutions that support long-term scalability.
The ideal candidate thrives in complex environments, enjoys solving challenging infrastructure problems, and takes ownership of critical systems.
This is a hands-on engineering role where your contributions will directly impact platform stability, efficiency, and customer experience.
Accountabilities:
- Develop and improve infrastructure tooling and automation to reduce manual processes, increase efficiency, and minimize operational risks.
- Build, maintain, and support critical applications and platform services.
- Monitor systems for capacity, availability, and performance while proactively identifying and resolving technical issues.
- Collaborate with engineering and SRE teams to ensure reliable delivery of services to customers.
- Analyze system weaknesses, identify improvement opportunities, and implement solutions to strengthen platform resilience.
- Design and maintain observability solutions, monitoring frameworks, and performance tracking systems.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response processes, and operational documentation.
- Participate in on-call rotations, troubleshoot production issues, and create effective runbooks for incident management.
- Contribute to technical strategies that support platform growth, scalability, and long-term reliability.
- Support best practices around cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
- 4+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar role focused on scalable and resilient services.
- Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure using platforms such as AWS or GCP.
- Experience creating automation tools and improving operational efficiency through engineering solutions.
- Solid understanding of observability platforms, monitoring strategies, and service-level objectives (SLOs).
- Experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Thanos, or similar monitoring technologies.
- Experience operating production systems in an on-call environment and improving incident response processes.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience, with Terraform knowledge considered a major advantage.
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including cluster operations, multi-tenancy strategies, and container orchestration best practices.
- Proficiency with one or more programming languages such as Node.js, Go, Ruby, Python, and experience with shell scripting.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to work independently, identify technical challenges, and drive improvements proactively.
- Competitive salary range of approximately CAD $140,000–$182,000 per year, with potential additional bonus opportunities depending on the role offered.
- Comprehensive medical, financial, and additional benefits package.
- Fully remote work flexibility within Canada.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale cloud infrastructure supporting billions of daily requests.
- Exposure to advanced technologies across cloud platforms, automation, observability, and AI-driven systems.
- Collaborative environment with experienced engineering teams and opportunities for technical growth.
- Opportunity to influence platform architecture, reliability strategies, and engineering best practices.
- Inclusive workplace culture focused on diversity, collaboration, and professional development.
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for improving the reliability, scalability, and performance of complex cloud-based systems. This role combines infrastructure engineering, software development, automation, and operational leadership to ensure highly available services and continuous platform improvement.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate is an experienced infrastructure and software engineer with a strong background in building reliable, scalable systems. You should have hands-on experience with cloud platforms, automation, observability, and modern infrastructure technologies, along with the ability to operate effectively in a collaborative engineering environment.