Senior Site Reliability Engineer

At BuildOps, we’re building a software platform that empowers today’s commercial contractors. From service management to project execution, we’re reimagining how our customers operate. Our team thrives on ambition, innovation, and collaboration – qualities we look for in every new hire.

You will join our cloud infrastructure and reliability engineering team as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). Your primary responsibility will be to improve and protect the reliability, performance, and operability of our production systems while helping evolve our AWS-based infrastructure. We’re looking for someone with a strong SRE mindset, solid software engineering fundamentals, and deep observability expertise who can work effectively in a distributed team environment.

Reporting to the DevOps and SRE Manager, this is a hands-on role where you will influence reliability strategy, build tooling and automation, and contribute directly to day-to-day operations in a fast-moving, industry-defining company.

What You’ll Do

• Drive and refine modern SRE practices across services, including SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and reliability reviews
• Design and maintain end-to-end observability (metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerts) so teams can quickly detect, debug, and prevent issues
• Partner with product and engineering teams to design reliable services—reviewing architectures, failure modes, rollout strategies, and capacity/latency considerations
• Help evolve and operate our AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, data stores) using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Contribute code to services, tooling, and automation (for example, reliability libraries, deployment and incident tooling, health checks)
• Define, implement, and iterate on SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with service owners, and use them to guide reliability work and release decisions
• Participate in incident response for infrastructure-related production issues, including learning-focused post-incident reviews and follow-through on action items
• Develop runbooks, safeguards, and automation that reduce manual work, improve time-to-diagnosis, and standardize responses to recurring scenarios
• Advocate for and implement security and compliance best practices in production environments
• Document standards, playbooks, and best practices so reliability improvements scale across teams
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders to plan and deliver reliability-focused initiatives

What We Look For

• 5+ years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or production-focused Software Engineering, working on production systems and reliability-focused initiatives
• Proven experience leading multi-sprint, multi-engineer projects (for example, reliability, performance, or infrastructure initiatives) to successful completion with clear business impact

Thorough understanding of, and hands-on experience with, modern SRE practices, such as:

• • Defining and implementing SLIs/SLOs and error budgets
  • Reducing toil through automation
  • Safe deployment and rollout patterns
  • Structured post-incident reviews and continuous improvement
    
    
• Software engineering experience: you’ve written and maintained production-quality code and can work comfortably in at least one modern language (for example, Python or Node.js/TypeScript)
• Strong interest in, and experience with, using LLMs and AI-assisted tooling in your workflow, including the ability to validate and improve what they generate

Strong observability skills, including:

• • Designing metrics, logging, and tracing for multi-service systems
  • Building actionable dashboards and alerts with clear runbooks
  • Correlating metrics, logs, and traces to debug complex issues
  • Experience with tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb, or New Relic (we use Datadog, but vendor-agnostic experience is welcome)

• Experience working with AWS in production and with core platform primitives such as Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code and container/orchestration platforms (for example, Docker with ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes)

Incident management experience is a strong plus, including:

• • Participating in or coordinating incident response
  • Working within an incident management tool (for example, incident.io, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or similar)
  • Helping teams implement durable, high-leverage follow-ups
    
    
• Demonstrated experience in engineering-led reliability practices (for example, infrastructure as code, automated deployments, observability-driven operations) rather than primarily manual server administration
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
• CS degree or equivalent experience running production systems; we are equally interested in people from non-traditional backgrounds who have spent time operating real-world environments
• Ability and willingness to participate in a production on-call rotation
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule – Monday/Friday WFH; Tuesday–Thursday in-office

Compensation

• $137,000 - $173,000 base salary range + annual bonus