Who You Are: S44 Automotive is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to become a founding member of our Operations team, owning and leading the technical implementation of multiple strategic initiatives. You have a track record of optimizing observability setups, designing resilient production systems, and automation.  You aren’t afraid to step outside of your day-to-day tasks, jumping in to assist your teammates to create positive change. Your dedication to continuous improvement is evident in regularly reviewing code, architecture, and security practices to enhance reliability and scalability. Beyond technical contributions, you serve as a mentor, fostering a culture of excellence and innovation within the team. 

What You Bring to the Team:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field  

• At least 4 years of experience in a SRE/DevOps role.  

• Proficient in major programming languages, such as Java and/or Python.  

• Proficient in AWS & GCP cloud architectures and best practices.  

• Hands on experience with IaC frameworks, such as terraform. 

• Expertise in observability, with hands on experience designing and implementing monitoring, logging, and tracing. 

• Experience with containers and orchestration platforms such as Docker, AWS ECS, and Kubernetes. 

• In-depth experience in troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and incident management and resolution. A passion for automation and DevOps principles. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop, maintain, and optimize observability setup, including proactive monitoring, logging, and tracing, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security. 

• Design and implement robust production systems for high availability, while keeping cost in mind. 

• Document best practices and operational guidelines for current and future products. 

• Develop and manage disaster recovery and response plans. 

• Work closely with engineering & support to automate processes to improve deployments, upgrades, monitoring, tasks, and alerting of various production systems. 

• Support and assist with Tier 2 Application Support tasks, such as data entry, customer support, and releases. Assist the team in automating manual tasks. 

• Participate in on-call rotations (after work hours and weekends) for production systems, manage incidents, root cause analysis and problem resolution. 

• Continuously improve products reliability, availability, and scalability through regular reviews of code, architecture, and security. 

• Implement features related to system stability, monitoring, and reliability. 

• Guide and mentor other engineers on best practices in availability, reliability, tooling, and methodologies. 

 Within Your First Month You Will:  

• Immerse yourself in the data and systems underlying our products. 

• Understand our existing product portfolio, roadmap, and growth strategy. 

• Define key objectives for your work. 

• Develop an operating & collaboration model with the team across engineering and product. 

• Take ownership of at least one production system and its operations. 

 Within Your First 3 Months You’ll: 

• Implement and improve existing observability and monitoring solutions.  

• Have developed a technical roadmap for improving our production systems.  

• Take ownership of several production systems and services from deployment to on-call. 

• Interrogate data pipelines underlying our products, propose and implement improvements to their resiliency, observability, and quality.  

What are the Benefits of Joining Our Team? 

At S44, we take ultimate pride in our employees! By choosing a career at S44, you gain: 

• Competitive compensation that includes equity. The base salary range for this position is $103,000-$132,000 and final base salary offer will be based on level of experience and informed by the Company’s Career Framework.  

• Covered premiums for health, vision, dental benefits (buy-up options available) 

• Unlimited Paid Time Off  

• Unlimited sick leave program 

• Paid parental leave program 

• 401K plans 

• Continuous learning opportunities 

• Company catered lunches 

What to Expect from Our Selection Process: 

While an advanced degree is not required, we seek passionate technologists who possess both technical and soft skills to excel on our team. Our selection process is designed to assess the whole candidate and foster a mutual match for you and us. The process includes: 

• Apply by submitting your resume, cover letters are optional 

• The S44 Hiring Team reviews your application 

• Introductory Video Interview with a member of the S44 Hiring Team to discuss what you are looking for in a role, as well as answer any high-level questions about us 

• Complete an online skills test. 

• Technical Interview using HackerRank and Microsoft Teams in order to dive deep into your technical and problem-solving skills. 

• Final Interview in-person, to enable our leaders to get to know you and give you the opportunity to share all your burning questions about S44, our culture, and your desired role.