Staff Site Reliability Engineer
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Staff Site Reliability Engineer operating Bluesky’s distributed infrastructure and AT Protocol services. Scaling bare-metal systems, improving reliability, and automating operations for millions of users.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and operate infrastructure powering Bluesky and the AT Protocol
- Work across bare-metal systems, cloud services, data infrastructure, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability engineering for systems serving millions of users
- Own reliability, availability, and operational excellence for production systems, including observability, incident response, deployment, and rollback systems
- Improve production readiness for services, migrations, and infrastructure changes
- Develop software for performance, automation, observability, and related areas
- Scale systems running on dense, latest-generation bare-metal servers in company colocation facilities
- Reduce toil through automation, tooling, and thoughtful engineering practices
- Partner with engineers across teams to design services with strong operational characteristics
- Lead incident reviews and turn contributing factors into engineering improvements
- Perform capacity planning and cost management across compute, storage, database, and networking workloads
- Manage vendor relationships to provide high-quality services at reasonable total cost of ownership
- Mentor engineers on reliability, operability, debugging, and distributed systems practices
- Help define a culture of operational excellence across the organization
Requirements:
- 10+ years experience operating high-scale production systems, including bare metal
- Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, storage, databases, and distributed systems
- Experience building and operating high-scale systems where correctness, latency, throughput, and availability were critical
- Ability to write production-quality software in Go
- Comfortable debugging across application code, operating systems, databases, networks, and hardware
- Experience with observability systems, alert design, incident response, capacity planning, Kubernetes, and production automation
- Interest in working on very small, fast-moving teams at a startup
- Read the AT Protocol docs, feel aligned with the mission, and want to contribute
- Overlap of working hours with PST is required
- Willingness to travel to team meetups once every 3-4 months
- There may be an on-site component to the interviews
Benefits:
- Equity will be considered in the total compensation package
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Fully remote team
- Willingness to travel to team meetups once every 3-4 months















