[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @STACK IT Recruitment

Role Description

We’re hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join an established consumer app company with a small engineering team. The focus is the AWS platform behind the app: Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and the PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch systems the product depends on. The work covers reliability, security, and infrastructure cost, in close collaboration with backend engineers, as the company builds its first user-facing AI feature.

Qualifications

• A seasoned Site Reliability Engineer who takes genuine ownership of production infrastructure and treats its reliability, security, and cost as their own responsibility.
• An engineer who approaches infrastructure as software, favouring durable automation and well-designed systems over manual intervention.
• Self-directed and confident setting priorities independently, weighing reliability, security, and cost against the needs of the business.
• A clear, candid communicator who shares feedback openly, assumes positive intent, and builds trust with colleagues across engineering and the business.
• Product-minded, with an interest in how infrastructure decisions affect the app and its users, and a willingness to contribute ideas beyond infrastructure.
• An enthusiastic adopter of AI-assisted engineering who uses it to work faster and automate routine tasks, while remaining accountable for security, correctness, and production outcomes.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including ownership of production cloud environments.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, and distributed systems, with a solid grounding in production operations.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and incident response processes.
• A track record of designing systems for failure and recovery, including capacity planning and production readiness.
• Experience operating production databases and shared data infrastructure such as PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or a comparable language.
• Hands-on experience with cloud security, including IAM, vulnerability management, and security reviews, ideally in partnership with security specialists.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure costs and making informed trade-offs between cost, performance, and reliability.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to both engineers and business stakeholders.

Benefits

• Base Salary: $140,000 – $180,000.
• Paid Time Off: Competitive vacation and personal days to maintain a healthy work-life balance.
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits, fully paid by the company, to support your overall well-being.
• RRSP Matching: Employer RRSP matching contributions, supporting your long-term financial security.
• Performance Bonus: Profit-sharing bonus recognizing the company’s business performance.