Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Core
Own incident detection, response, and learning; drive observability standards and SLO/SLI adoption across engineering teams to improve reliability and reduce MTTR.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Incident Management & Observability)
Builds
Incident response processes, observability standards, SLO/SLI programs, Datadog dashboards and alerting patterns
Domain
Cybersecurity / IT Platform / Distributed Systems
Required skills
Incident lifecycle management, Datadog (metrics/logs/traces), SLO/SLI definition, Linux, distributed systems, Go/Python, Terraform, cross-team influence
Preferred skills
OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty/Opsgenie, hyper-growth startup experience, regulated environment experience
Technologies
Datadog, Kubernetes, Terraform, Go, Python, Linux
Responsibilities
Lead incident lifecycle (detection, triage, mitigation, postmortems); Define and maintain severity models and escalation paths; Establish organization-wide observability standards in Datadog; Drive adoption of SLOs/SLIs and error budgets; Mentor engineers on operational excellence and production readiness
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
