[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Customer.io

Role Description

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help us scale our infrastructure, reduce operational toil, and increase reliability as we grow. If you’ve worked on high-scale systems and love making platforms better for developers and customers alike, we’d love to meet you.

• Build and scale infrastructure to support billions of messages per day and real-time events
• Automate deployments, alerting, and incident response
• Make our on-call better - clear alerts, solid documentation, and faster resolution
• Tune MySQL and other datastore performance and improve reliability across distributed systems
• Collaborate across teams to debug, ship, and support systems in production
• Share knowledge and raise the bar through sharing your progress publicly with short videos, thoughtful writing, and mentorship
• Leverage AI tools to prototype, move faster, and make better decisions

Qualifications

• 7+ years in SRE or infrastructure roles, improving production systems at scale
• Deep MySQL experience - schema design, performance tuning, and operational tooling
• Fluency in cloud-native tech (GCP a plus) and Terraform
• Proficiency in Go and Bash for scripting and systems programming
• Skill in observability, incident response, and debugging distributed systems
• A preference for action over perfection, and pride in owning technical decisions

Compensation & Benefits

We believe in transparency. Starting salary for this role is $140,000 - $180,000 USD (or equivalent in local currency) depending on experience and subject to market rate adjustment.

We know our people are what make us great, and we’re committed to taking great care of them. Our inclusive benefits package supports your well-being and growth, including:

• 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and supplemental insurance premiums for you and your family
• 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Unlimited PTO
• Stipends for remote work and wellness
• A professional development budget
• And more

Our Process

• Application - We review everyone with care. Tell us why you're interested.
• Recruiter Call (30 mins) - Let’s chat about what you’re looking for and how we work.
• Behavioral Interview (60 mins) - Talk with one of our hiring managers. We’ll explore topics like ownership, product thinking, and collaboration.
• Take-Home Assignment - Complete a short, realistic task similar to what you’d work on here.
• Technical Interview + Assignment Review Call (90 mins) - Walk us through your take-home project and the decisions you made along the way. We’ll also collaborate on a system design problem, focusing on real-world scaling challenges and tradeoffs.

Join us!

We believe in empathy, transparency, responsibility, and, yes, a little awkwardness. If you’re excited by what you read and want to build software that makes communication better for everyone—apply now.