Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Remote (United States (EST))

Location

United States (EST)

Type

Full time

Department

Develocity Engineering

Overview

Who We Are

Develocity is a first-of-its-kind toolchain observability and acceleration platform that helps software teams adopt and improve DORA capabilities (including continuous delivery) in order to achieve software delivery excellence. It combines build and test acceleration with deep observability for builds and tests with Gradle Build Tool, Apache Maven™, sbt, npm, and Python, and applies to both CI and local builds and tests. Ultimately, Develocity provides an operational layer across an organization’s toolchains to speed up, troubleshoot, and optimize local developer and remote CI feedback loops. Our software is used by some of the world's leading software organizations, such as Netflix, Airbnb, SAP, several top ten banks, and many other major customers across all verticals. We regularly collaborate with these and other users to make our products continuously better. We have partnered with the Apache Software Foundation, the Commonhaus Foundation, the Scala Center, the Micronaut Foundation, and other OSS projects like Spring, Quarkus, Kotlin, JUnit, AndroidX, and many more to bring the values of Develocity also to the OSS Community.

Our Values

Seek to Understand: Everything starts with listening and understanding... [truncated for brevity but full text included in actual output]

Responsibilities

Operate and maintain all Develocity instances...
Define & evolve SRE standards/practices...
Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation...
Lead incident response & blameless retrospectives...
Set reliability priorities using risk/customer impact/business goals/SLOs/error budgets...
Identify systemic reliability risks & continuously evolve Develocity’s SaaS operations...
Lead & influence architectural/design reviews ensuring reliability/scalability/operability...
Drive automation across deployment/upgrades/monitoring/self-healing/recovery/operational workflows...
Build & maintain comprehensive observability for all managed services including logging/metrics/tracing/alerting...
Own disaster recovery/backups/business continuity planning & execution...
Partner with engineering leadership balancing feature delivery with reliability & operational excellence...
Mentor & coach SREs supporting technical growth & strong operational practices...
Help onboard new SREs & contribute to hiring by defining/assessing SRE excellence at Develocity...
Communicate clearly with customers during incidents & maintenance windows...
Optimize performance/resource utilization/operational costs.

Minimum qualifications

7+ years in SRE/DevOps or equivalent role operating production services at scale.
Experience leading reliability initiatives across multiple teams or services.
Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction without direct authority.
Experience designing/operating systems with SLOs/error budgets; strong judgment balancing reliability/velocity/cost.
Strong Kubernetes experience in production environments.
Cloud infrastructure expertise preferably AWS (EKS/RDS/S3/EC2).
Proficiency with observability tools (Prometheus/Grafana) & Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
Track record of incident management & response in 24/7 on-call environment.
Scripting proficiency (Python/Bash) for automation.
Strong written/verbal English communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

Experience as founding or early SRE establishing practices in growing SaaS organization.
Familiarity with Develocity.
JVM language experience (Java/Kotlin).
Experience with customer-facing/executive-level incident communications.

What We Offer

Ground-floor role in new SRE team - shape how things are done rather than inherit decisions.
Real ownership of production systems used by engineers at well-known companies.
Direct interaction with customers when things go wrong (and when they go right).
Culture valuing automation over heroics.
In-person meetings such as annual company offsite/team meetings.
Work from home in remote-first environment.
Competitive salaries & equity grants.

Compensation

The US salary range for this position is $180k-$220k reflecting target ranges for all US locations. Individual pay determined by geographic location plus factors including experience/relevant skills/qualifications/seniority/performance/travel requirements. Recruiting team can share specific salary range during hiring process.

Location

Remote from anywhere in EST timezone. While team works remotely/spread globally they deeply value daily interactions/collaboration.

Perks & Benefits

Competitive salary

We offer all team members competitive salaries based on geographical location.

Stock options

We offer all team members company stock option plans.

International benefits

We provide benefits tailored to your country of work.

Gradle World Meeting

Once a year gather at cool global destination for week of in-person meetings/team-building events.

Annual in-person team meeting

In addition to Gradle World Meeting individual teams meet once a year to bond/collaborate in-person.

Learning & development

Annual learning/development stipend plus monthly meeting-free day dedicated to learning.

Home office stipend

Stipend provided to ensure comfortable remote work setup.

Volunteer day

Up to 8 hours paid time each year for team members to give back locally.

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