[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Climavision

Role Description

Climavision is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to contribute towards reliability, operational excellence, and production resilience for our customer-facing platform and weather data services. This role is focused on ensuring our systems consistently meet demanding customer SLAs, including a 99.5% availability commitment for radar-derived data services.

• Own production reliability for Climavision's customer-facing platform and radar-derived weather data services across Azure, colocation, and edge Kubernetes environments.
• Contribute to the definition and improvement of SLIs, SLOs, alerting standards, and operational metrics used to measure platform reliability.
• Support and coordinate production incident response efforts, including troubleshooting, mitigation, communication, and postmortem analysis.
• Diagnose and resolve complex production issues across application services, Kubernetes infrastructure, storage, and distributed systems.
• Drive multi-replica and multi-cluster high availability across Climavision's .NET services.
• Contribute to the multi-cluster high-availability strategy across Climavision's hybrid fleet.
• Operate and improve Climavision's self-managed Kubernetes platform.
• Ensure Kubernetes platform lifecycle activities are executed in a manner that preserves service availability.
• Improve reliability and operational maturity of production platform services.
• Design and validate Kubernetes workloads for resiliency, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Read, debug, and contribute production-quality C# / .NET code focused on reliability improvements.
• Partner with software engineering teams to improve production readiness.
• Maintain and improve deployment pipelines, Helm charts, Kubernetes manifests, and infrastructure automation.
• Support and evolve Climavision's observability platform.
• Conduct performance engineering and capacity-planning efforts for customer-facing services during peak weather-event demand.
• Help facilitate blameless postmortem reviews and drive operational follow-up items through completion.
• Improve disaster recovery, failover, and business continuity capabilities.
• Drive operational excellence initiatives.
• Contribute as a senior technical resource and mentor on reliability engineering and production operations practices.

Qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field; equivalent professional experience considered.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, or a related infrastructure-focused role.
• Strong, hands-on software engineering experience with a minimum of 3 years supporting and modifying C# / .NET applications in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience refactoring production application code to make services horizontally scalable.
• Experience designing or operating multi-cluster high-availability architectures.
• Experience supporting customer-facing production systems with uptime, reliability, and incident-response responsibilities.
• Strong hands-on experience operating production workloads in self-managed or highly customized Kubernetes environments.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving production incidents across application, platform, and Kubernetes infrastructure layers.
• Experience operating Kubernetes outside of strictly managed cloud environments.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code concepts.
• Experience supporting CI/CD and production deployment pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, application, and platform layers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working in start-up, scale-up, or other fast-moving engineering environments.

Requirements

• Experience operating Kubernetes platforms using RKE2 and Rancher.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud and colocation infrastructure environments.
• Experience with service mesh technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes-native storage platforms.
• Experience operating PostgreSQL or PostGIS in Kubernetes environments.
• Experience with distributed messaging systems.
• Experience supporting GPU-enabled workloads in Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with reliability engineering practices.

Benefits

• Benefits of a dynamic and growing organization.
• A challenging, hands-on role that will have real impact on the business.
• Competitive compensation.
• Comprehensive benefits package.
• 401(k) Savings Plan.
• Medical/Dental/Vision Benefits.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Account (FSA).
• Unlimited Paid Time-off.
• 11 Paid Holidays.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Company Paid Short-term Disability (STD).
• Company Paid Long-term Disability (LTD).
• Company Paid Life Insurance.