Site-Reliability-Engineer, DevOps-Engineer, Platform-Engineer Jobs

At a glance

• Engagement: Independent contractor, fully remote. Live screen-share sessions with our researchers plus short asynchronous write-ups.
• Pay: $150 per hour. The trial session is paid.
• Commitment: About 10 hours per week, 1 to 3 months to start, with extension for strong performers.
• Start: Rolling
• Location: Remote, any country, with a few hours of overlap with US or EU working hours.

The role

You'll work live with our research team on production-style reliability scenarios in a sandboxed stack: Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana, a log system, Helm and Terraform, and CI/CD. You solve the scenario the way you would on call, explain your reasoning as you go, tell us where the scenario doesn't match real operations, and help define what a correct resolution looks like.

Each session starts from a scenario we provide. You investigate it on a shared screen, fix or mitigate it, and then write a short note on how you approached it. Your work becomes evaluation and training data for frontier models.

You don't need an AI background. You do need to be the kind of engineer who reads the dashboard before touching the config, and who can say out loud why a tempting fix is the wrong one.

Areas we're hiring for

Each area is defined by the systems you run, so you should fit exactly one. If you work across two, apply under the one where you spend most of your time.

• Incident response and on-call. Engineers on a production rotation who triage alerts, read metrics, logs and traces, find root cause, mitigate, roll back and write the post-mortem. Typical titles: Site Reliability Engineer, Production Engineer, On-Call Engineer, Platform Engineer.
• Platform and infrastructure. Engineers who own clusters, deploy pipelines and infrastructure as code: Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, CI/CD, networking and capacity. Typical titles: Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer.
• Observability. Engineers who build and tune the monitoring itself: Prometheus and PromQL, Grafana dashboards and alert rules, Loki or ELK, OpenTelemetry tracing, SLOs and error budgets. Typical titles: Observability Engineer, Monitoring Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (Observability).

What you'll do

• Work through incident, debugging and infrastructure-change scenarios live with a researcher: reading dashboards and logs, writing PromQL and LogQL, fixing Helm and Kubernetes configuration, rolling back bad deploys and writing post-mortems.
• Explain your reasoning as you work, including the fixes you considered and rejected.
• Review scenarios we have drafted and say plainly what is unrealistic, too easy or underspecified.
• Help write the acceptance criteria for each scenario, including the tempting wrong moves an engineer under pressure might make.
• Write short notes after each session on how you approached the problem and what you verified.
• Work in reviewer feedback within agreed turnaround times, and flag guideline gaps or edge cases you run into.

Who we're looking for

Required

• 3+ years running production systems in at least one of the areas above, including time on an on-call rotation within the last two years. You did the work yourself; managing the team is not enough.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana (or Datadog or New Relic), a log stack such as Loki, ELK or Splunk, infrastructure as code such as Terraform and Helm, and a CI/CD system.
• Comfortable in Python, Go or Bash and at reading unfamiliar codebases.
• Able to explain your reasoning out loud while you work, in clear professional English.
• Reliable availability for scheduled live sessions and the habit of showing the evidence behind every conclusion.

Nice to have

• Experience writing runbooks, post-mortems, SLO definitions or incident training material.
• Familiarity with how AI coding agents fail on operations work.

Our standards

• All solutions, write-ups and reviews are your own work. LLM-generated code or text is not permitted.
• Scenarios and solutions must be original. Nothing may be copied from published or easily searchable sources.
• Never include code, configuration, runbooks or incident details from a current or former employer or client, or anything covered by an NDA. All systems and scenarios are fictional, and all work is your own.
• Quality is judged on correctness, clarity of reasoning and reviewer agreement, not on speed or volume.

How hiring works

• Short AI interview and resume review
• One paid trial session, scored against a fixed quality checklist
• Onboarding and your first project

Originally posted on Himalayas

Compensation: $190,000 - 250,000/year

Team & Position Details:

Virtru protects data wherever it travels, for customers ranging from commercial enterprises to the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, Law Enforcement, and Federal Civilian agencies. Many of these customers are deploying one of Virtru’s product stack in their mission environments, and some of those environments have no path to the internet.

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) in the Delivery Engineering organization, you’d be helping to build a founder team focused on making these deployments simple, easy, and fast. You’ll be relentless in the pursuit of one-click deployability, automating the hard stuff to ensure that we make every deployment faster and more reliable than the last one. You’ll build and maintain a compatibility matrix customers can self service without engineering support, build automation to test and validate releases for deployability before they ship rather than after, and architect and deliver observability and diagnostics a customer can run and act on without us in the room. We build the automation, packaging, and tooling that makes that true, and we turn what we learn on each customer into something every later customer reuses.

You’ll work directly with deployment engineers and forward deployed engineers to identify needs and turn long run books and disparate bootstrap scripts into working software that solves their problems. You’ll also interact with our product engineering teams to influence their roadmap to deliver critical infrastructure and platform capabilities that improve deployment reliability and repeatability. You will work alongside a Principal Software Development Engineer who owns Delivery Engineering’s engineering standard and reusable-asset architecture. You own the delivery path built under it, and you will write the criteria a release has to meet before it can ship to a customer.

The impact of this role is company and product wide, heavily enabling our goals to scale Virtru, partner, and customer led deployments non-linearly without having to throw more humans at the problem. You’ll be expected to come up with AI-native design patterns that will increase our velocity without compromising our high bar for quality and security. The right candidate is excited about working on a small, nimble, highly autonomous and empowered team where everyone is expected to make high judgement, high velocity decisions independently and with urgency. If you want a role where the connection between what you build and what the company achieves requires no explaining, this is one.

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), your responsibilities will include:

• Own deployment automation for the Data Security Platform: how it is packaged, installed, upgraded, and validated in environments Virtru does not operate. You will author the criteria a release has to meet before it is allowed to ship to a customer, and you will be the recognized authority on whether a given environment is ready for one.
• Build the air-gapped delivery path end to end. Offline bundles, mirrored registries, signed artifacts with a software bill of materials, and an upgrade that completes with no egress, no shell access, and no telemetry coming back.
• Partner with QA to build the reproducible test fleet and deployment test harness that proves a release works across the Kubernetes distributions, identity providers, and version states our customers actually run, and that produces our published compatibility matrix as a by-product rather than as a document somebody maintains by hand.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Establish the infrastructure-as-code baseline for a standard deployment, so every deployment and upgrade starts from a known state.
• Instrument deployments so we can measure time to value, upgrade lag, first-time-right rate, and cost per deployment, and hand that telemetry to our Operations partners to support continuous improvement.
• Design for disconnected operation from the start. In classified and air-gapped environments automated telemetry may be difficult or prohibitive to collect, so every collector needs a mode where a human reviews a local file and releases it.
• Convert what we learn on each engagement into a reusable accelerator instead of another runbook.
• Partner with our Platform Engineering counterparts on the build and release pipeline. They own the pipeline and you will own the criteria it enforces on our behalf.
• Carry field findings into product decisions with a documented outcome, so the same class of deployment failure does not arrive a second time.
• Act as the technical authority on hard customer deployment escalations, and convert each one into an enduring asset such as automation, tooling, or a product ticket (i.e., not tribal knowledge).
• Set the technical bar for the engineers who join after you, and help us define what good looks like for this discipline across our organization and company.
• Mentor, coach, and develop more junior engineers while cultivating a DevOps first mentality across our organization and the company.

Skills that will help you thrive in this role:

• Top 3 must haves
  • You have shipped software into environments you could not reach. Air-gapped, disconnected, or otherwise customer-controlled, with no egress and no shell access. You have personally built an offline install bundle and a working upgrade path.
  • Have worked with Kubernetes across distributions. EKS, OpenShift, RKE2, k3s, or their equivalents, with real Helm packaging depth and a clear understanding of how the same application fails differently on each.
  • You embrace Infrastructure as code and reproducible environments as a discipline. Terraform or OpenTofu, CloudFormation, Ansible, and the ability to stand up a fleet that reproduces a customer's specific combination of distribution, identity provider, and version state on demand.
• Nice to haves
  • Argo CD or GitOps at scale.
  • Windows Server, PowerShell, and MSI or MSIX packaging with code signing. Many of our customers' end-user environments are Windows-heavy and some of our policy enforcement points are deployed on Windows client endpoints. Preferred, not required.
  • Go proficiency, which is what the Data Security Platform and OpenTDF are written in.
  • Operational depth in Keycloak, OIDC, and SAML, and particularly in identity providers that are not Keycloak.
  • Federal compliance and software supply-chain tooling: STIG and OpenSCAP, SBOM generation, artifact signing with Sigstore or an equivalent.
  • Hands-on experience with Zarf, Hauler, oc-mirror, or troubleshoot.sh. We may adopt mature tooling in this space rather than rebuild it, so direct experience here moves you to the front of the line.
  • Podman and systemd-based container deployment, for the customers who will never run Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with Zero Trust security architecture and concepts such as Policy Enforcement/Decision Points, cryptography, attribute-based access control (ABAC), and identity.
  • Existing TS/SCI US security clearance or eligible to be submitted for one. Not required for this role, but nice to have.

• What are the dealbreakers?
  • A career spent entirely inside infrastructure you controlled. If every system you have shipped runs in your own cloud account, this role may not be for you.
  • Needing shell access and live dashboards to debug. In our hardest environments, a customer emails you a file and that coupled with a phone call may be the entire diagnostic surface.
  • Enduring operational toil without automation. If your answer to recurring toil is a better runbook rather than software to automate it, this isn’t a fit.
  • Inability to earn trust and credibility with partners and customers. You may be the person who has to explain to a skeptical government security team why our install is safe, or to an internal VP of Engineering why we need to prioritize critical platform features. Those have to be conversations you are willing and excited to have.

Virtruvian qualities that will set you up for success:

• Thinking outside of the box to respectfully challenge your teammates and managers in the pursuit of excellence
• Strong sense of urgency with an action-oriented mindset
• Able to collaborate and adapt to shifting priorities as business needs evolve
• Comfortable with asynchronous communication including slack, email, zoom, etc.

Perks & Benefits:

At Virtru, we believe people do their best work when their wellbeing is put first. This is why we make your wellbeing our priority with a thoughtful and holistic program that encompasses Occupational, Mental, Social, Physical, and Environmental Wellness by offering benefits such as…

• A Flexible PTO policy — we strongly encourage you to take time off (in addition to 14 holidays) to ensure that you are getting the proper time needed to unplug and recharge.
• A $1,500 annual Learning & Development Stipend focused on providing you the resources to continually learn and professionally grow.
• Frequent company-sponsored team celebrations that provide ample opportunities to connect with teammates and be social!
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program
• Access to Headspace, a mental health app tailored to your specific needs.
• A flat 3% contribution to your retirement account
• A high degree of flexibility — Have an appointment, errand, or family emergency to take care of? Hop to it! We give you the time and space to take care of you and your own first.

In addition to wellbeing, Virtru places a strong emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Our DB&I Council is dedicated to fostering an inclusive workplace and making the psychological safety of each and every one of our teammates a top priority.

Additional perks include:

• Competitive compensation
• Generous parental, medical, and bereavement policies
• 401K contribution and stock options
• Full medical, dental, and vision benefits
• New Hire Swag and IT Welcome boxes
• Structured semi-annual 360° performance reviews

Virtru is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. Virtru is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.

Originally posted on Himalayas

We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to architect, scale, and maintain DeviantArt’s high-throughput AWS infrastructure, supporting over 1.5 billion monthly page views. In this role, you will drive infrastructure automation, optimize high-scale database performance, harden system security, and ensure maximum uptime through robust deployment pipelines and proactive site reliability management.

• High-Scale AWS Infrastructure: Architect and maintain auto-scaling AWS systems designed to reliably serve DeviantArt's 1.5B+ monthly page views.

• High Availability & Incident Response: Maximize platform uptime and rapidly resolve performance degradation or service outages.

• Database & Search Optimization: Scale, maintain, and troubleshoot sharded MySQL databases and search infrastructure (e.g., Vespa.ai) for low-latency queries.

• CI/CD & Dev Parity: Build zero-downtime pipelines (Terraform, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, CodeBuild) and maintain production-parity dev environments.

• Infrastructure Automation: Automate resource provisioning and configuration management, backed by clear documentation and automated testing.

• Security & DDoS Mitigation: Enforce robust security protocols, defend against targeted DDoS attacks, and execute routine patch management.

• Cloud Cost Optimization: Monitor and tune AWS resource utilization to minimize infrastructure spend without compromising site performance.

• 24/7 Operations & On-Call: Ensure continuous reliability as part of a 3-engineer 24/7 on-call rotation.

• Minimum of 10 years of experience working with systems at scale in either a Dev Ops, Platform Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer type role.

• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot complex problems, analyze system bottlenecks, and implement effective solutions, from frontend through backend systems, sometimes during production degradation or outage.

• Exceptional command line Linux skills.

• In-depth knowledge of AWS services, infrastructure as code using Terraform, and container orchestration with Kubernetes.

• Experience building Docker images, and composing Helm charts.

• Proficiency in Python and Bash for scripting and automation.

• Experience with sharded MySQL databases.

• Proven track record in security compliance standards on large-scale web infrastructures and in-depth knowledge of DDOS mitigation strategies.

• A proactive mindset in identifying potential issues and taking pre-emptive actions to prevent downtime or performance degradation.

• Excellent communication skills, open minded, and capable of effectively collaborating with cross-functional teams and articulating technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

• Bonus points: if you have experience with GitOps tools and methodologies.

DeviantArt. Founded in 2000 and a part of Wix since 2017, DeviantArt is the largest online social network for artists and art enthusiasts. For emerging and established artists, DeviantArt is the foremost platform to exhibit, promote, and share works with an enthusiastic, art-centric community. We have over 86 million registered users worldwide, and our users -- lovingly referred to as “deviants” -- upload tens of thousands of original pieces of art every day, from painting and sculpture to digital art, pixel art, films, and anime.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Wix was built around the idea that everyone has the right to be successful, online. This same vision defines us as an employer: creating a work environment where everyone is welcome, and anyone has the right to succeed.

At this time we are seeking US based candidates.

Approximate base compensation $160,000 - $190,000. In addition to the base pay, this role includes variable compensation earned and company RSUs as part of the compensation package. The final package may vary and will be determined by various factors including location, shift, and/or candidate experience.

In addition to a competitive compensation package and opportunities for professional growth, Wix offers comprehensive benefits to support the well-being and financial security of our employees. Our benefits include:

• Comprehensive health & life benefits including fully covered medical, dental and vision.

• Generous and flexible time off for personal recharge and special life moments

• Emotional and mental health support programs

• Allowances supporting nutrition, fitness and productivity

• 401K matching, with no vesting period

• Equity & ESPP -

• We grant RSUs (restricted share units) to all of our employees. We believe that our employees directly impact our success and thus should benefit from our successes.

• All employees are also eligible for the ESPP (Employee Stock Purchase Plan) allowing employees a unique opportunity to benefit from Wix’s success by purchasing Wix shares at a discounted rate.

Originally posted on Himalayas

Job Title: Platform Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Remote - US Only
Country: United States
Department: Engineering
Reports To: Director, Platform Engineering
Position Type: Full-Time
Salary: $165,000 + Bonus

Job Summary:

First Due is seeking a highly motivated Platform Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Engineer to help build, scale, and maintain the infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and operational systems that power our platform. This individual contributor role is responsible for improving system reliability, performance, security, deployment processes, and scalability while partnering closely with Engineering, Product, and Security teams.

The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, operational excellence, cloud infrastructure, software development and deployment processes, observability, and continuous improvement. They thrive in fast-paced environments and enjoy solving complex technical challenges that directly impact customers and business outcomes.

This candidate will be an excellent fit if they are not afraid to drive consensus on standards, develop the golden path, and partner with senior engineering leadership to influence or mandate others to adopt the standards.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure.
• Build and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions to support repeatable and reliable deployments.
• Continuously improve platform reliability, resiliency, scalability, and performance.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure services are designed and operated with reliability and observability in mind.
• Support disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity initiatives.

DevOps & Automation

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable efficient and reliable software delivery.
• Automate manual operational tasks and improve deployment processes across environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to streamline development workflows and reduce operational overhead.
• Improve release management practices and deployment strategies.
• Champion DevOps best practices across the organization.

Reliability & Operations

• Monitor production systems and proactively identify opportunities to improve availability and performance.
• Participate in incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions.
• Help define and monitor service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), and reliability metrics.
• Support on-call rotations and assist with critical production incidents when necessary.

Security & Compliance

• Partner with Security and Engineering teams to implement and maintain secure infrastructure practices.
• Support vulnerability remediation, patch management, access controls, and security monitoring.
• Assist with compliance initiatives and infrastructure controls.
• Ensure systems adhere to security, privacy, and operational best practices.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Work closely with Engineering, Product, QA, and Security teams to support platform initiatives.
• Document infrastructure, operational processes, and technical standards.
• Identify opportunities to improve reliability, efficiency, developer experience, and operational excellence.
• Contribute to technical discussions, architectural reviews, and long-term platform strategy.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Platform Engineering, or a related role.
• Strong experience managing and supporting production cloud environments.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code principles and tooling.
• Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex operational issues.
• Knowledge of networking, security, scalability, and high-availability architectures.
• Strong scripting or automation experience using languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Experience working closely with software engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to balance operational stability with delivery speed and business priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting high-growth SaaS platforms.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and containerized environments.
• Experience with Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or other infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar automation platforms.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, or similar tools.
• Experience with Database Operations, Database Scacling, Query Optimization, and BCDR
• Experience with implementing Zero-downtime deployments
• Familiarity with security frameworks, compliance requirements, and operational governance practices.
• Experience building highly available, mission-critical applications and services.
• Experience supporting distributed and remote engineering organizations.

Originally posted on Himalayas