Staff Site Reliability Engineer

TL;DR

Staff Site Reliability Engineer (AWS EKS/Terraform): Lead technical architecture and execution of migration from legacy GCP to scalable AWS EKS infrastructure with an accent on GitOps patterns, SLO-driven reliability, and developer tooling. Focus on designing critical automation in Node.js/Go, evolving K6-based load testing platform, and optimizing Istio service mesh for production demands.

Location: Remote, United States

Company

Sports media platform elevating overlooked communities, athletes, and sports through diverse, inclusive engineering teams using blind recruiting.

What you will do

• Lead migration from GCP to AWS EKS, architecting core infrastructure with Terraform and GitOps patterns for organization-wide adoption.
• Champion SLO-driven culture using four Golden Signals for critical user journeys.
• Design and develop tooling/automation in Node.js and Go to eliminate developer toil.
• Evolve in-house K6 load testing platform and act as Istio service mesh expert.
• Spearhead agentic workflows, proactive scaling, and automated remediation initiatives.
• Participate in on-call rotation, mentor engineers, and drive post-mortems to systemic improvements.

Requirements

• 8-10+ years in SRE/DevOps/Software Engineering at Staff level.
• Proven technical leadership mentoring seniors and leading large-scale projects.
• Expert polyglot coder with deep Node.js/Go experience building critical services.
• Architectural Kubernetes/EKS expertise including networking and control plane.
• Terraform IaC expert designing large-scale reusable frameworks.
• Observability architect with Datadog for SLOs; CI/CD with GitHub Actions.
• Systems thinker decomposing complex cross-functional problems.

Nice to have

• Agentic systems and intelligent automation for SRE.
• Cloud migration leadership (GCP to AWS).
• K6 performance testing and scaling frameworks.
• Istio in large multi-tenant environments.
• Serverless with SST; legacy config deprecation.

Culture & Benefits

• Code-first SRE culture with shared stability responsibility and pragmatism.
• Flexible work schedule control and all-hands in Austin, Texas.
• Comprehensive medical/dental/vision, 401(K) match, disability/life insurance.
• Progressive parental leave, flexible PTO, hack-a-thons, team events.
• Equity awards, stocked snacks, catered meals.