Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Role summary
We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with deep Azure expertise to establish and scale the Azure infrastructure foundation. This role is crucial for ensuring our platform operates as a secure, scalable, and production-ready system, meeting high reliability standards for complex enterprise use cases. Responsibilities include designing and building Azure infrastructure from scratch using Terraform for IaC, translating requirements into technical plans, enhancing platform services, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Success within 6-12 months means a production-ready Azure environment with repeatable, scalable, and secure customer deployments, achieving feature parity with other cloud environments.
We are hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Azure) to build and scale the Azure infrastructure foundation for. This role exists to ensure that our platform can operate as a secure, scalable, and production-ready system in Azure, supporting complex enterprise use cases and high reliability expectations.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design and build secure, scalable Azure infrastructure from first principles for a production-grade distributed system
- Develop and own Terraform-based infrastructure as code, enabling repeatable and automated deployments
- Translate product and customer requirements into technical architecture and execution plans
- Build and enhance platform services, APIs, and integrations that extend company's capabilities
- Partner across engineering, security, and product teams to deliver enterprise-ready infrastructure solutions
- Contribute to operational excellence, including reliability, observability, and incident response
- Support customer deployments and production environments through Tier 2 infrastructure support
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE (6–12 MONTHS)
- Azure is a production-ready deployment environment
- Customer deployments are repeatable, scalable, and secure
- Azure achieves feature parity with other supported cloud environments
Requirements:
Core Capabilities
- Proven experience designing and building production-grade systems on Azure
- Ability to take ambiguous requirements to structured technical solutions to delivered systems
- Strong technical communication skills across engineering and non-technical stakeholders
- High ownership mindset with a bias for action and accountability
- Collaborative approach with a focus on building durable, scalable solutions
Functional Expertise
- Azure cloud services (networking, compute, identity, security, storage)
- Terraform (infrastructure as code at production scale)
- Programming experience in Go and/or Python
- Experience building greenfield infrastructure environments
- Distributed systems, high-availability architectures, or platform engineering
- CI/CD and automation tooling for infrastructure lifecycle management
Nice to Have
- Kubernetes and container orchestration
- Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)
- Workflow/orchestration platforms (Argo, Spacelift, or similar)
Compensation & Package
- Equity & Tokens
- Performance Bonuses
- Health insurance & 401k for US employees only.
Pay: $150,000.00 - $200,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Application Question(s):
- This is a Full Time Permanent role, are you eligible to work with any employer in the USA?
- Do you have proven experience building greenfield cloud environments from scratch, taking infrastructure from zero to production with full ownership of architecture and delivery?
- If you are in Europe, are you willing to work in the EST time zone?
- Please share your LinkedIn URL
Experience:
- SRE: 7 years (Required)
- Azure: 7 years (Required)
- Go: 7 years (Required)
- Python: 7 years (Required)
- Terraform: 7 years (Required)
- Distributed systems: 7 years (Required)
- CI/CD: 7 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote
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