Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS, Kubernetes) - Canada

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer in Canada.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help scale and secure a high-traffic, rapidly growing platform. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring system reliability, performance, and availability as infrastructure demands continue to grow. You will work hands-on with cloud infrastructure, databases, and observability tooling while partnering closely with product and engineering teams. The role offers significant ownership over core infrastructure systems and the opportunity to build long-term, resilient foundations. This is an ideal position for someone who thrives in fast-moving environments and enjoys solving complex reliability challenges at scale.

Accountabilities

• Act as a primary responder for system incidents and outages, ensuring high availability and fast recovery.
• Own and continuously improve monitoring, alerting, and log management systems.
• Manage, optimize, and scale database infrastructure including MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, and Redis.
• Maintain and enhance server infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and release processes.
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to design and operate scalable, resilient systems.
• Build and maintain internal SRE tooling and automation to improve reliability and efficiency.
  
  

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Deep expertise with AWS and Kubernetes in production environments.

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• Proven experience managing incident response and production outages.
• Hands-on experience with database operations, performance tuning, and optimization.
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring, and logging best practices.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities.
• Strong alignment with company values and a collaborative, ownership-driven mindset.
• Proficient in English, spoken and written, at CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
• Based in North or South America for timezone alignment.
• Bonus: experience with SOC 2 compliance, scaling platforms to 1M+ MAU, or working with ClickHouse.
  
  

Benefits

• Competitive salary: $130,000 – $140,000 USD per year, plus equity and annual compensation reviews.
• Fully remote work from anywhere.
• High autonomy and trust, with a strong focus on outcomes.
• Generous paid time off: 35 days annually, plus a paid sabbatical after 5 years.

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• Comprehensive medical coverage for you and your family, or reimbursement options where applicable.
• Parental leave and family support benefits.
• Home office setup stipend.
• Learning and development budget for continuous growth.
• Annual bonus potential for eligible roles.
• Twice-yearly fully paid company retreats in international locations.
  
  

Why Apply Through Jobgether?

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