Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (GCP/AWS)

TL;DR

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer (GCP/AWS): Building and evolving systems to automatically run product services reliably with an accent on infrastructure-as-code, observability, and disaster recovery. Focus on designing high-availability distributed systems, eliminating single points of failure, and mentoring engineering teams in reliability best practices.

Location: Must be based in Seattle, WA; role is 100% onsite (5 days a week)

Salary: $175,000–$200,000

Company

A Morningstar company providing data, research, and technology to the private and public capital markets.

What you will do

• Define and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and indicators (SLIs) to ensure system performance.
• Build and manage infrastructure-as-code using tools like Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible.
• Implement observability systems including monitoring, telemetry, tracing, and alerting.
• Design for high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery across multi-AZ and multi-regional cloud environments.
• Perform incident management, root cause analysis, and mitigate system failures.
• Mentor and train platform and software engineers on reliability topics and best practices.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.
• Must be able to work onsite in Seattle, WA, 5 days a week.
• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure roles.
• 5+ years of experience with Linux/UNIX systems and cloud environments (GCP/AWS).
• 5+ years of experience coding in object-oriented languages (Java, Python, Go, or Kotlin).
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Professional certification in AWS or GCP preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits with medical wellness incentives.
• 401k match and shared ownership employee stock program.
• Generous vacation, sick leave, and paid sabbatical program after four years.
• Annual educational stipend and tuition reimbursement opportunities.
• Subsidized emergency childcare and monthly transportation stipend.