[Hiring] Site Reliability Engineer III @Indeed.com

Role Description

Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) at Indeed work directly with our product teams, working closely with them to design, code, test, run, and evolve the systems that help people around the world get jobs. We work closely with dozens of Indeed teams to drive the adoption of modern reliability practices like:

• Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Error budget policies
• Actionable alerts
• Follow-the-sun on-call
• Incident retrospectives
• End-to-end ownership
• Designing robust guardrails for AI-driven workflows

In this role, you’ll partner closely with software engineers and product managers to balance feature velocity with system reliability. You’ll proactively identify opportunities to improve:

• Resilience
• Reliability
• Observability
• Efficiency
• Operational excellence

You’ll explore automation and emerging technologies such as Generative AI and agentic engineering to reduce manual effort and improve quality at scale by automating routine tasks and driving the adoption of modern reliability practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering, and a minimum of 5 years of related experience; or a Master’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of experience; or a PhD without experience
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure and observability tools/platforms, such as AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, GitLab, and Datadog
• Experience in improving availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of systems through modern reliability practices such as SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and operational guardrails
• Experience building or contributing to large-scale or distributed systems
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and core computer science fundamentals
• A demonstrated sense of ownership and accountability for delivered work
• Curiosity, eagerness to learn, and enjoyment of solving complex technical problems

Benefits

• Quarterly bonuses
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Paid Time Off policy
• Region-specific benefits

Company Description

As the world’s number 1 job site, our mission is to help people get jobs. We strive to cultivate an inclusive and accessible workplace where all people feel comfortable being themselves. We're looking to grow our teams with more people who share our enthusiasm for innovation and creating the best experience for job seekers.