Build and operate reliability, observability, and incident-management systems for regulated cloud production environments, partnering across engineering and lab teams to improve service reliability and compliance.
Site Reliability Engineer III
📜 Description
- Consolidate Terraform repositories and establish conventions for state, modules, code review, and CI checks.
- Normalize environments and improve GitHub Actions automation, drift detection, and alerting.
- Patch and upgrade Cloud SQL databases and application runtimes; right-size workloads and improve scaling.
- Evaluate Kubernetes architecture, including the potential move to multiple clusters.
- Improve Datadog and Cloud Monitoring observability, including access controls that protect health information.
- Retire legacy infrastructure and establish runbooks, on-call, and escalation processes; support enterprise launch readiness.
🛠️ Requirements
- Bachelor's degree at a minimum.
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, with real ownership of production systems.
- Deep hands-on Terraform experience, including structuring modules and managing state across environments.
- Strong working knowledge of GCP, including GKE, Cloud SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL), IAM, networking and load balancing, and cost management.
- Production Kubernetes experience, including autoscaling, resource management, and judgment about what belongs in the cluster versus outside it.
- Hands-on experience building monitoring, alerting, and dashboards with tools like Datadog or Cloud Monitoring.
- Proficiency in Python for tooling and automation.
- Comfortable working across multiple teams and disciplines, and explaining infrastructure decisions to non-specialists.
- Experience as an early or first SRE hire.
- Experience refactoring or consolidating a large, organically grown Terraform codebase.
Full job description
Vida has been operating and growing for years, and our infrastructure reflects that. We run on GCP with a production GKE cluster hosting around 50 workloads, from Django applications to scheduled Airflow jobs. Our data layer includes Cloud SQL (MySQL and PostgreSQL), Redis, and Firestore. Our infrastructure is defined in two Terraform repositories, one for core GCP infrastructure and one for our data platform, and both have grown across many contributors over time. Until now, our infrastructure has been managed by backend engineers with deep infrastructure experience, and this role adds our first dedicated SRE to that group.
You'll be Vida's first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer. You'll join the Enablement Team, which owns the platform and tooling our Engineering Teams build on. You'll report to the Engineering Manager and work closely with the team's Lead Engineer, who sets technical direction and will mentor you. This is a fully remote role with no time zone restrictions.
You'll modernize, consolidate, and scale our infrastructure as Vida takes on a wave of new enterprise contracts starting January 1. You'll also help shape what SRE looks like at Vida going forward.
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