Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Company: Aviatrtix

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Business Type: Startup

Company Type: Product

Business Model: B2B

Funding Stage: Series D+

Industry: Multi Cloud Network Security

Job Description

The Aviatrix SRE team is a small but highly skilled global group of Systems Engineers/SREs dedicated to ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of Aviatrix’s critical systems and services. Our mission is to build and maintain a robust, resilient infrastructure that enables Aviatrix to deliver high-quality services with agility through automation, best practices, and a culture of operational excellence.

About The Role

As a Staff Engineer – Site Reliability Engineering, you’ll work independently taking ownership of significant components and systems. You’ll mentor junior contributors while driving technical excellence and reliability improvements across the platform.

Tech Stack & Responsibilities

• Kubernetes – Design and implement complex application lifecycle management, custom operators, and advanced troubleshooting
• Terraform – Architect comprehensive IaC solutions with advanced configurations and module development
• Automation & Development – Design and build sophisticated automation frameworks and tools in Golang and Python
  
  

• Reliability Engineering: Own reliability for major platform components; define SLA targets and drive achievement
• Automation Excellence: Architect automation frameworks that scale across teams; eliminate entire classes of manual work
• Observability: Design comprehensive observability strategies; implement advanced monitoring and distributed tracing
• Incident Management: Lead major incident response; establish incident management processes and runbooks
• Performance Engineering: Drive system-wide performance improvements; establish performance engineering practices
• Infrastructure as Code: Architect enterprise-scale IaC solutions; establish organizational standards and patterns
• Collaboration: Lead technical discussions with product engineering; influence architecture decisions across teams
• Continuous Learning: Evaluate emerging technologies for organizational adoption; drive technical innovation
  
  

• Component Ownership: Take full ownership of significant system components with responsibility for their reliability and performance
• Architecture & Design: Design components and systems with moderate complexity, evaluating tradeoffs and writing comprehensive design documents
• Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on complex problems
• SLA Contribution: Major contributor to SLA definitions for products and services delivered by the team
• Reliability Engineering: Significantly improve product security, quality, ease of operations, reliability, and performance
• Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts and conduct thorough root cause analysis
• Process Leadership: Drive improvements to engineering processes and operational procedures
• Recruiting: Actively participate in interviewing and recruiting efforts
  
  

• Experience: 6+ years with BS in designated Engineering or related field
• Advanced Technical Skills: Expert-level proficiency in Golang and Python with system design experience
• Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience designing and implementing cloud-native solutions
• Infrastructure Expertise: Deep understanding of Terragrunt/Terraform, including advanced features and best practices
• Kubernetes Mastery: Advanced Kubernetes knowledge including operators and Helm
• Observability: Expert knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability solutions
• Leadership: Demonstrated ability to mentor others and lead technical initiatives
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for design documentation and presentations