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Staff Software Engineer (Site Reliability)

Ironclad

Skills

Required

  • SRE / DevOps / infrastructure engineering
  • database
  • Kubernetes
  • AI / LLM
  • AI coding
  • scheduling
  • networking
  • distributed systems
  • Azure
  • TypeScript / Python
  • PostgreSQL / MongoDB / Redis

Preferred

  • design documents
  • incident writeups
  • infrastructure as code
  • CI/CD
  • Terraform
  • CircleCI

Join Ironclad as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer. In this role, you will shape the cloud platform, identify reliability and scaling challenges, and lead solutions from design through production. You will also make architectural decisions, monitor and scale our data layer, reduce toil through automation, and strengthen our SRE practices. Additionally, you will participate in the SRE on-call rotation, mentor engineers, and work across teams.

Contribuer à la définition de la direction technique pour l'ingénierie de la fiabilité des sites (SRE) et la plateforme cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Identifier les risques de fiabilité avant qu'ils ne deviennent des incidents, concevoir et livrer des changements qui réduisent les risques.
  • Participer à la rotation d'appel SRE, répondre aux incidents de production, diriger des enquêtes complexes.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, with design documents and incident writeups that help teams make decisions and take action
  • A collaborative approach: you deliver meaningful improvements, share credit, and help others succeed
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and GitOps tooling, such as Terraform or Pulumi, CircleCI, and Argo CD

Requirements

  • 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including experience as a technical lead for business-critical systems
  • Experience using AI coding tools to improve engineering workflows, with sound judgment about when to use them and how to validate their output
  • Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production, including troubleshooting scheduling, networking, and resource issues at scale
  • A track record of leading through influence and helping teams you don’t manage adopt better practices
  • A strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud storage architecture, and backup and recovery
  • Deep hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure; GCP experience is preferred
  • 5+ years developing and maintaining production software in TypeScript or Python, including tools and services
  • Strong troubleshooting skills, including the ability to move from a vague symptom to a root cause under pressure
  • Production experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Redis, including query and index tuning, replication, monitoring, and scaling under load
  • Designing or operating multi-region systems
  • Sharding databases or operating them on Kubernetes

Running AI or LLM infrastructure in production

  • Leading large-scale database, cluster, or service migrations with minimal downtime, including planning, sequencing, rollback, and stakeholder communication
  • Building security into infrastructure and delivery pipelines and maintaining it through ongoing operations. FedRAMP experience is a plus

Pay

USD 210,000 - 235,000