Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HostPapa is currently one of the fastest-growing web hosting companies, providing individuals and small to medium-sized businesses with access to essential online tools and services. The Site Reliability Engineer will ensure the reliability, scalability, and observability of CloudBlue’s multi-tenant SaaS platforms, focusing on system stability and performance while collaborating with various teams to operate resilient production systems.
Responsibilities
- Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for critical CloudBlue services to ensure reliability and performance
- Influence system architecture with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and operability, designing systems for fault tolerance, graceful degradation, and self-healing
- Reduce operational toil by identifying opportunities for automation and process improvement
- Design and operate CloudBlue’s observability stack across metrics, logs, and traces using tools such as Datadog, Grafana, and Elastic Stack
- Develop actionable alerting strategies and dashboards that provide clear insight into platform and business health
- Design and maintain high-availability architectures, implementing redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery strategies across regions and availability zones
- Conduct capacity planning, load testing, and performance optimization to ensure platform stability and scalability
- Act as a senior responder during production incidents, leading incident coordination, communication, and service restoration
- Own blameless postmortems and drive improvements that reduce incident frequency, MTTR, and customer impact
- Improve reliability of Kubernetes-based platforms through health checks, autoscaling strategies, rollout safety, and resilience testing
- Partner with engineering and DevOps teams to improve deployment safety, rollback strategies, and platform reliability
- Maintain runbooks and operational documentation, and promote SRE best practices across engineering teams
- Support other tasks or projects as assigned to meet team and business needs
Skills
- 3+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, or Production Engineer, with strong ownership of production systems
- Proven experience operating highly available, enterprise-grade, multi-tenant SaaS platforms
- Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Grafana, and Elasticsearch/Kibana
- Solid understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems fundamentals
- Experience working with containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or Bash
- Experience participating in on-call rotations and incident response in production environments
- Strong written and spoken English
- Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and managing error budgets at scale will be considered a plus
- Exposure to hyperscale or service-provider-grade platforms is an advantage
- Cloud experience, preferably with Azure; experience with AWS and/or GCP will also be valued
- Experience working with hybrid or on-premises integrations is beneficial
- Familiarity with chaos engineering and resilience testing will be considered an asset
Benefits
- This is a remote opportunity.
- A competitive salary that values you and your unique skill sets
- Career advancement & professional development opportunities to help you reach your full potential
- Flexible work arrangements to support work/life balance
- 24/7 award‑winning customer support in four languages
- HostPapa is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require accommodation, please let us know, and we will work with you to meet your needs. Accommodation may be provided in all parts of the hiring process.
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