Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Doghouse Recruitment is seeking a Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join their client's team building a cloud platform for high-throughput, compute-heavy workloads. The role involves owning production reliability, defining SLIs/SLOs, and improving deployment safety while working in a bare-metal environment.

Responsibilities

• Define SLIs/SLOs
• Run error budget conversations
• Ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99)
• Build automation to kill toil
• Improve deployment safety (canary/rollback)
• Turn observability into signal rather than noise

Skills

• Extensive Production Engineering experience running bare metal / on-prem / data center infrastructure (not public cloud only)
• Deep hands-on expertise in Linux systems debugging and performance (CPU, memory, IO, - level behaviors)
• Strong understanding of networking (DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion, troubleshooting under load)
• Strong Kubernetes experience beyond manifests: scheduler behavior, autoscaling edge cases, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, Helm, and modern CI/CD practices
• Strong coding skills are required for this role either in Go, and/or Python, beyond automation scripting - Real engineering capability is a must
• Experience in Low Latency environments

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