Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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Staff Site Reliability Engineer defining observability architecture and enhancing system reliability at Unqork. Leading technical strategy and providing mentorship across teams for cloud-native systems.
Responsibilities:
- Report to our VP of Engineering
- Observability Architecture & Strategy: Define and own end-to-end observability architecture, establishing standards for instrumentation and telemetry while leading OpenTelemetry adoption.
- Reliability & Operational Excellence: Use telemetry to proactively manage reliability risks, define SLIs/SLOs, and shift the organization from reactive response to proactive engineering.
- Technical Leadership: Serve as a Staff-level IC providing architectural guidance and mentorship across SRE, DevOps, and application teams.
- System Insight: Improve how the organization understands system behavior and detects/resolves incidents
- Operational Impact: Directly influence platform uptime, customer experience, engineering velocity, and operational efficiency
- Data-Driven Decisions: Enable better decision-making regarding performance, scalability, and reliability through data
Requirements:
- Extensive Experience: 8+ years in SRE or Platform engineering, with a proven track record of operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems.
- Technical Mastery: Deep hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and observability platforms (AWS preferred), plus proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
- Strategic Mindset: A systems thinker who can influence across teams without formal authority, balancing strong technical opinions with pragmatism and cost awareness.
- Environment Scope: Operate across a highly distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-native environment
- Architectural Standards: Define observability standards, architectures, and best practices as a Staff-level individual contributor.
Benefits:
- 💻 Work from home with a remote-first community
- 🏝 Unlimited PTO (and the encouragement to use it)
- 📝 Student loan payback program
- 🏥 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you and your dependents
- 💸 Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- 🏠 Monthly stipend toward your WFH setup, vacation, development and more
- 💰 Employer-sponsored 401(k) with contribution match
- 🏋🏻♀️ Subsidized ClassPass Membership
- 🍼 Generous Paid Parental Leave


















