Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)Department: Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: REMOTE US
Compensation: $140,000 / year
DescriptionWho We're Looking ForThe Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team's centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes.
LocationWhile we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL
CompensationFixed Position Rate: $140,000
This role carries a single, non-negotiable Fixed Position Rate to ensure absolute equity and eliminate negotiation bias.
Key ResponsibilitiesWhat You'll AccomplishReasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout
- Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools
- Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS
- Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
- Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas
- Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness
- Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization's knowledge base
- Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools
- Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment
- Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues
- Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows
- Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety
Skills, Knowledge and ExpertiseWhat You'll Contribute
Required (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack):- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests)
- AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3)
- FinOps and cloud cost optimization
- Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
- Agentic AI (Claude Code)
- Scripting (Shell, Python)
- Track record of collaboration and mentorship
- Excellent written communication and documentation skills
- Continuous learning
- Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems
Preferred:- Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC)
- Flink
- Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS)
- Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance)
- Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI)
- GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation)
- REST API
- GitOps (ArgoCD)
- Hashicorp Vault
- Redis
- Memcached
Education & Experience:- A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience.
- 5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles.
BenefitsWhat We Provide- Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
- 401(k) with employer match
- 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
- 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
- 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
- 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
- Monthly wellness allowance
- Annual professional and personal development allowance
- Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
- Flexible work location opportunities
- Employer matching toward charitable contributions
