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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Babylist

Skills

Required

  • AWS
  • EKS
  • RDS
  • cloud networking
  • DNS
  • CDNs
  • load balancers
  • Kubernetes

Preferred

  • Terraform
  • AWS environment
  • drive post-incident reviews
  • close the loop
  • incident management
  • post-mortems

As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will own the infrastructure and reliability practices that support over 9 million users and the engineers who build for them. You will actively evolve how we build and operate AWS infrastructure, CI systems, and developer tooling, and work cross-functionally across all of Babylist Engineering. This is a staff-level role with real cross-team visibility, and your work will have outsized leverage across the entire product organization.

About Babylist

  • Babylist, a rapidly growing company that started as an e-commerce and registry platform and is now expanding into health, media, mobile, and new product surfaces.
  • Deep hands-on Terraform expertise — you own IaC, not just contribute to it
  • You naturally reach for AI in your work — at Babylist, every team uses AI daily. You're already using it to move faster and improve your output, and you stay curious about what's coming next

Responsibilities

  • Infrastructure ownership — manage and evolve our AWS environment using Terraform, keeping EKS clusters, databases, and core services current and performant.
  • CI/CD reliability — own the speed and reliability of our CI systems for the full Engineering org — every deploy starts here.
  • Incident response — lead or support incident response, drive post-incident reviews, and close the loop so the same thing doesn't happen twice.
  • Experienced with on-call and incident management — you've run the post-mortems and actually changed things afterward

Requirements

  • Proven AWS experience at scale — EKS, RDS, cloud networking, DNS, CDNs, load balancers — you know the gotchas
  • Experienced operating Kubernetes in production — you've debugged the hard stuff, not just deployed the easy stuff
  • Comfortable supporting developers across local, staging, and production — you're a resource, not a gatekeeper
  • Strong observability instincts — Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, Cronitor — you build alerting that's actionable, not noisy
  • Comfortable designing and improving CI/CD systems — CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar; you care about developer velocity, not just pipeline uptime
  • USD 226,673 - 271,991