Site-Reliability-Engineering, SRE, DevOps Jobs

When the Tarr Steps, a footbridge assembled of heavy stones in Exmoor National Park in England, washed away in a flood in 1942, the Royal Engineers rebuilt it. Then it washed away again in 1952. So the Royal Engineers heaved in more stones: on and on, like a Sisyphean lesson in absurdity.

Of course, they do this because the Tarr Steps are a historical monument, believed to be built during the Bronze Age. Modern bridge building looks a lot different and generally requires less upkeep. While we appreciate the charm of ancient things, Mercury is engineering the future of banking*. "Quaint" and "archaic" are not values we seek in our systems. Rebooting a tumbling server and hoping a flood of requests doesn't wash it away can be an emergency tactic, but we actively seek out durable solutions over monotonous ops work. You'll bring this ethos and teach others how to live it too.

Up to this point, the Stability team at Mercury has primarily built platform-level constructs that product teams adopt. However, those teams are asking for us to work more closely with them to mature their implementations and practices. We are creating an SRE team that will rotate through product teams. You will understand the team's domain, identify opportunities for improvements in reliability/observability/performance/preparedness and create self-reinforcing, virtuous cycles.

As part of this role, you will:

• Embed with product teams, helping them improve their operational maturity by setting up and refining practices around on-call, monitoring, alerting, and run books
• Run regular game day exercises with product teams, helping them feel more prepared to investigate and quickly remediate incidents
• Jump into application code written in Haskell & TypeScript and implement reliability techniques such as retries, better error handling, better logging, circuit breaking, etc
• Steer SLOs towards meaningful customer outcomes that product teams are accountable for. Those SLOs become a strong signal for whether the product is working as intended
• Champion reliability practices through design document and code reviews
• Identify observability gaps that hinder debugging, incident response, and business intelligence and help close those
• Advocate for longer-term improvements that non-product engineering teams can drive
• Participate in the product team's on-call rotation while embedding or as part of a more general engineering rotation, helping us improve processes and how we learn from incidents

The ideal candidate for the role:

• Has past Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience
• Has measurable examples of influencing an organization towards greater reliability
• Has significant experience with PostgreSQL
• Has authored and operated Temporal workflows
• Has experience with observability platforms like Grafana or Honeycomb
• Has familiarity with OpenTelemetry

If this role interests you, we invite you to explore our public demo at .

*Mercury is a fintech company, not an FDIC-insured bank. Banking services provided through Choice Financial Group and Column N.A., Members FDIC.

Mercury values diversity & belonging and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All individuals seeking employment at Mercury are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected characteristic. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. If you need assistance, or an accommodation, please let your recruiter know once you are contacted about a role.

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Who You'll Work With
We’re looking for Site Reliability Engineers to join Arista’s FedRAMP CloudVision-as-a-Service (CVaaS) SRE team.

SREs at Arista combine strong software engineering background, systems architecture knowledge, with passion for operating production systems at scale. We are responsible for our global CloudVision service fleet, ensuring scalability, reliability, and stability. You’ll have firsthand experience in being part of a rapidly growing product with a passionate group of engineers that unapologetically put product reliability and customer experience first. We deeply believe in building highly automated and self-sustaining environments, prioritizing safe and efficient operations that leverage cutting edge technologies and tools.

What You'll Do

As an SRE you’ll have the chance to be drive, develop, and lead projects in any of the following areas, with FedRAMP perspective:

• Data Platform (NetDL) Architecture and Performance
• Capacity Planning
• Autoscaling
• Disaster Recovery
• Observability
• Change Management - CI/CD
• Service Network Architecture
• Cost Optimizations
• Infrastructure and Cloud-First Application Security

You will also be joining FedRAMP on-call rotation split between West and East coast timezones.

Arista’s CloudVision is an enterprise network management and streaming telemetry SaaS offering. CloudVision stack is built entirely Kubernetes-native. Familiarity with GCP (Google Cloud Platform) and GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) is preferred. Our technical stack includes but not limited to: Golang, Python, Ansible/Pulumi, Bash. You will be expected to develop, operate, and work with many different types of databases, both directly on Kubernetes or leveraging managed DB products. We integrate with many different Open Source Software (OSS) projects that both power our microservices stack, monitoring infrastructure, and much more.

• BS or MS in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• U.S. Citizenship required
• Experience managing FedRAMP SaaS environments or other highly regulated systems
• Proven experience developing or managing deployments of distributed database systems or large-scale SaaS applications
• Proficiency in Python, Go (Golang), or other programming languages
• Strong scripting skills in Bash or other scripting languages

Compensation Information

The new hire base pay for this role has a pay range of $101,000 to $161,000 across the US. Arista offers different pay ranges based on work location, so that we can offer consistent and competitive pay appropriate to the market. The actual base pay offered will be based on a wide range of factors, including skills, qualifications, relevant experience, and work location. The pay range provided reflects base pay only and in addition certain roles may also be eligible for discretionary Arista bonuses and equity. Employees in Sales roles are eligible to participate in Arista’s Sales Incentive Plan, which pays commissions calculated as a percentage of eligible sales. US-based employees are also entitled to benefits including medical, dental, vision, wellbeing, tax savings and income protection. The recruiting team can share more details during the hiring process specific to the role and location.

Arista Networks is an equal opportunity employer. Arista makes all hiring and employment-related decisions in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or any other factor determined to be unlawful under applicable federal, state, or law law. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Arista Networks is an industry leader in data-driven, client-to-cloud networking for large data center, campus and routing environments. What sets us apart is our relentless pursuit of innovation. We leverage the latest advancements in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and software-defined networking to provide our clients with a competitive edge in an increasingly interconnected world. Our solutions are designed to not only meet the current demands of the digital landscape but to also anticipate and adapt to future challenges.

At Arista we value the diversity of thought and perspectives that each employee brings to the table. We believe that fostering an inclusive environment, where individuals from various backgrounds and experiences feel welcome, is essential for driving creativity and innovation.

Our commitment to excellence has earned us several prestigious awards, such as Best Engineering Team, Best Company for Diversity, Compensation, and Work-Life Balance. At Arista, we take pride in our track record of success and strive to maintain the highest standards of quality and performance in everything we do.

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Responsibilities

• Design and improve the monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, dashboards, alerting, SLIs,
and SLOs that give teams meaningful visibility into production health and customer impact.
• Build and maintain automation, internal tools, and CI/CD systems that increase engineering
efficiency, reduce toil, and support reliable deployments at scale. Take responsibility for the
quality and reliability of tools and services you support.
• Drive the implementation and continuous improvement of reliable systems for building,
deploying, testing, and operating Filevine products, proactively identifying and resolving
reliability, performance, scalability, and security risks before they impact customers.
• Own complex production incidents through detection, triage, communication, resolution,
and follow-up. Turn incident learning into durable corrective actions, stronger runbooks and
operating practices, and improvements that reduce recurring incidents and operational

burden.

Lead significant technical initiatives from problem definition and design through
implementation and adoption. Coordinate work across engineers and teams, communicate
tradeoffs and risks, and help ensure the work delivers the intended results.
• Mentor other Site Reliability Engineers through design reviews, incident follow-ups, paired
problem-solving, and meaningful delegation. Help engineers develop stronger technical
judgment and become increasingly capable of handling complex production work
independently.
• Participate in the shared on-call rotation and help ensure production systems are prepared
to operate reliably at scale through capacity planning, operational readiness, and
continuous improvements to resilience and recovery.
• Apply AI and machine learning to analyze operational signals, identify patterns, forecast
reliability and capacity risks, and implement improvements that make systems more
reliable, efficient, and easier to operate.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform
engineering, DevOps, or related technical roles, including at least 5 years in a Site Reliability
Engineering or reliability-focused role.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems and hands-on experience operating Kubernetes
workloads and cloud infrastructure in AWS or a comparable platform, with proficiency in
Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, logging, alerting, distributed tracing, SLIs, and SLOs.
• Strong proficiency with Python, Go, Bash, or a similar language, with demonstrated
experience building and maintaining production tooling, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and
deployment systems that reduce toil, improve reliability, and simplify ongoing operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead troubleshooting, incident response, root cause analysis, and
long-term reliability improvements for complex production systems, including the
elimination of recurring incidents and operational work.
• Proven ability to mentor Site Reliability Engineers, help others build stronger technical
judgment, communicate clearly with technical and business stakeholders, and lead complex
initiatives from planning through delivery.
• Demonstrated experience applying AI and machine learning to operational data and
engineering workflows to identify patterns, forecast reliability or capacity risks, and
implement measurable improvements with appropriate safeguards.

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Do you enjoy collaborating with teams to solve complex challenges?

Do you have a passion for automation and building systems that scale?

Join our highly skilled Site Reliability Engineering team!

Our team designs, develops, and manages applications and infrastructure that support Akamai Cloud's products and services. Our SRE teams solve reliability, security, and usability at scale for our global fleet while maintaining Akamai's mission at the forefront of what we do: make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day.

Partner with the best

In this role, you will focus on configuration management, IAC, and CI/CD. You will design, develop, and operate infrastructure deployment for the Akamai Cloud.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Designing, developing, testing, and operating critical services that support the reliability, scalability, and performance of our infrastructure.
• Designing and implementing observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and telemetry capabilities, to proactively detect and resolve issues
• Driving reliability improvements through automation, reducing operational toil and increasing the resilience of engineering processes.
• Developing technical expertise in IAC systems and serving as a trusted technical resource, mentoring engineers and sharing best practices
• Collaborating with software engineering, infrastructure, and platform teams to investigate complex production issues, identify root causes, and implement long-term corrective actions.
• Participating in an on-call rotation and providing leadership during incident response, driving timely service restoration, effective communication, and post-incident improvement efforts.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• Demonstrate experience in a Site Reliability or Software Engineering role, working with large-scale distributed systems.
• Have experience with Terraform, including module development, state management, workspace design, policy enforcement, and enterprise-scale Infrastructure as Code implementations
• Have experience managing Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Terraform, SaltStack, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar technologies
• Have experience with designing, developing, and deploying software and infrastructure at scale in a Linux environment.
• Have great communication and interpersonal skills

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.

Our focus is simple:

Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

FlexBase adapts to your job's needs

Akamai's FlexBase program is yet another way we show our commitment to providing employees with an exceptional workplace experience. It's not about telling employees where to work; it's about supporting employees to do their best work.

We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.

Compensation

Akamai is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For US based candidates only - the base salary for this position ranges from $75,700 - $136,300/year; a candidate’s salary is determined by various factors including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and location. Compensation for candidates outside the US will vary. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). Akamai provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation (in the form of PTO), sick time, family friendly benefits including parental leave and an employee assistance program including a focus on mental and financial wellness; Eligibility requirements apply.

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