Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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Staff SRE architecting GoDaddy’s multi-data-center Linux patching automation platform. Driving AI-assisted vulnerability remediation, observability, SLOs, and reliability at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Own the Automation Mesh multi-DC architecture, including failure domains, distributed locking, graceful degradation, and LB-aware draining
- Take the AI-assisted vulnerability triage and remediation pipeline from MVP to production
- Define triage accuracy SLOs, implement safeguards against mis-classified CI types, and expand vulnerability coverage
- Reduce LPA onboarding lead time through cluster provisioning patterns, self-service runbooks, and onboarding contracts
- Define the platform testing strategy across unit tests, Molecule tests, and Execution Environment smoke-test contracts
- Resolve the integration-testing architecture decision and build a scalable quality foundation
- Replace legacy compliance reporting with LPA dashboards and build alerting for patching SLA risk
- Define and instrument service-level objectives and error budgets for patch delivery latency, automation success rate, and alert-to-remediation lead time
- Mentor engineers and lead cross-functional program delivery
- Communicate architectural decisions to platform consumers and partner teams
- Lead the team’s AI tooling practice and establish standards for LLM-assisted development
Requirements:
- 10+ years of hands-on SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering experience, including Staff or Principal-level scope
- Ansible at scale, including roles, collections, Execution Environment container builds, and lint pipelines
- AWX / Ansible Automation Platform, including Automation Mesh, Execution Environments, RBAC, and credential types; architecture-level ownership required
- Terraform / IaC, including cluster provisioning via tfvars-driven modules on OpenStack or comparable private cloud
- Kubernetes / K3s operations, including cordon/drain, etcd quorum, and Kubernetes-aware patching coordination
- Direct ServiceNow REST/API integration experience, including CMDB, Change Order workflows, and VIT/vulnerability tracking
- Systems architecture and distributed design for fault-tolerant, redundant systems
- AI / LLM integration in operations and LLM API integration in workflows
- Grafana / Prometheus / Mimir / Loki dashboard and alerting rule development
- Python scripting
- Experience defining and instrumenting SLI/SLO/error budgets
- Incident commander experience, on-call rotation ownership, and postmortem facilitation
- Documented technical mentorship experience
- Cross-functional program leadership across multiple teams without direct authority
Benefits:
- Paid time off
- Retirement savings, including 401k and pension schemes
- Bonus/incentive eligibility
- Equity grants
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Competitive health benefits
- Parental leave
- Family-friendly benefits
- Employee Resource Groups
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