Staff Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering

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.

Responsibilities

· Kubernetes: Design and implement complex application lifecycle management, custom operators, and advanced troubleshooting

· Infrastructure as Code: Architect comprehensive IaC solutions with advanced configurations and module development

· Automation & Development: Design and build sophisticated automation frameworks and tools in Golang and Python

· Component Ownership: Take full ownership of significant system components with responsibility for their reliability and performance; define SLA targets and drive achievement

· Architecture & Design: Design components and systems with moderate complexity, evaluating tradeoffs and writing comprehensive design documents

· Reliability Engineering: Contribute improvements that significantly improve product security, quality, ease of operation, reliability, and performance. Own reliability for major platform components

· Automation Excellence: Implement 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

· Collaboration: Lead technical discussions with product engineering; influence architecture decisions across teams

· Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on complex problems; drive improvements to engineering processes and operational procedures

Qualifications

· 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 as Code: Deep understanding of Terragrunt/Terraform, including advanced features and best practices

· Kubernetes: 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