[Hiring] Staff Site Reliability Engineer @Bluesky

Role Description

We're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help design, implement, and operate the infrastructure that powers Bluesky and atproto. This is a hands-on role for someone who has operated high-scale production systems, understands how distributed systems fail, and wants to build the operational foundation for an open social network.

• Work across bare-metal systems, cloud services, data infrastructure, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability engineering for systems serving millions of users.
• Own reliability, availability, and operational excellence for our production systems, including observability, incident response, deployment, and rollback systems.
• Improve production readiness for services, migrations, and infrastructure changes.
• Develop software that pushes the state of the art in performance, automation, observability, and other areas.
• Scale systems running on dense, latest-generation, bare-metal servers in our own colocation facilities.
• Reduce toil through automation, tooling, and thoughtful engineering practices.
• Partner with engineers across all our teams to help design services with strong operational characteristics.
• Lead incident reviews and turn contributing factors into concrete engineering improvements as we practice continuous improvement.
• Perform capacity planning and cost management across compute, storage, database, and networking workloads.
• Manage various vendor relationships to ensure we can provide high quality services at a reasonable TCO.
• Mentor engineers on reliability, operability, debugging, and distributed systems practices and help define a culture of operational excellence across the org.

Qualifications

• +10 years experience operating high-scale production systems, including bare metal.
• Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, storage, databases, and distributed systems.
• Built and operated high-scale systems where correctness, latency, throughput, and availability were critical.
• Can write production-quality software in Go.
• Comfortable debugging across application code, operating systems, databases, networks, and hardware.
• Experience with observability systems, alert design, incident response, capacity planning, Kubernetes, and production automation.
• Like working on very small, fast-moving teams at a startup.
• Have read the AT Protocol docs, feel aligned with the mission, and want to contribute!

Requirements

• Fully remote team, but an overlap of working hours with PST is required.
• Willingness to travel to team meetups once every 3-4 months.
• On-site component may be required for interviews.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.

Additional Notes

• Equity will be considered in the total compensation package.
• The final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses, and certifications.