Staff Engineer, Site Reliability
Senior remote-first (Canada-based) Staff Site Reliability Engineer owning the reliability, security, and scalability of an AWS/Kubernetes cloud platform. Day to day: Terraform infrastructure automation, secure CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, GitHub Actions), observability/SLOs, incident response, and developer tooling, plus mentoring and AI-assisted workflows.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Canada
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Strong software engineering experience building and operating production-quality tools/services with automated tests, code reviews, and maintainable interfaces
- Hands-on experience implementing and operating security controls for production systems (access management, workload identity, secrets management, network isolation)
- Deep expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, independently owning infrastructure modules and workflows
- Proven experience operating AWS environments at scale, including EKS, RDS, cloud networking, DNS, CDNs, and load balancers
- Extensive production experience with Kubernetes, including troubleshooting complex operational issues
- Experience designing and improving CI/CD systems using CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or comparable platforms
- Strong observability experience with tools such as Datadog, Sentry, PagerDuty, and Cronitor, including building actionable alerts
- Experience participating in on-call rotations, managing incidents, conducting post-mortems, and implementing follow-up improvements
- Ability to support developers across local, staging, and production environments
- Demonstrated interest in and regular use of AI tools in engineering workflows
- Strong technical leadership, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with cross-team influence
Full description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer, Site Reliability based in Canada.
We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to shape the reliability, security, and scalability of the cloud platform supporting millions of users and multiple engineering teams. In this senior technical role, you will take ownership of AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD systems, and developer tooling while helping define long-term platform strategy. You will combine strong software engineering capabilities with deep infrastructure and security expertise to build automation, improve operational practices, and establish secure defaults across production systems. Working across engineering teams, you will drive reliability initiatives, strengthen incident response, and improve the developer experience through practical self-service solutions. You will also help evolve an AI-forward engineering culture, using AI tools to accelerate delivery while maintaining high standards of quality and security. This remote-first opportunity offers significant technical influence, cross-team visibility, and the chance to build resilient systems that support families during important life moments.
Accountabilities
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Own and evolve AWS infrastructure using Terraform, ensuring EKS clusters, databases, networking, and core services remain secure, reliable, performant, and up to date.
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Design, build, and maintain tested infrastructure modules and automation tools that establish secure defaults for least-privilege access, secrets management, workload identity, and network isolation.
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Develop production-quality software tools and services, supported by tests, documentation, runbooks, and self-service workflows that enable engineering teams to operate independently.
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Improve CI/CD systems and deployment workflows using platforms such as CircleCI and GitHub Actions, maintaining fast and dependable delivery processes.
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Integrate security controls into development and deployment pipelines, including dependency scanning, container scanning, secret detection, and short-lived deployment credentials.
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Support developers across local, staging, and production environments, troubleshooting infrastructure issues and removing technical blockers.
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Define and improve observability standards, service-level objectives (SLOs), and actionable alerting in collaboration with engineering teams.
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Use incident trends and operational data to prioritize reliability improvements and reduce recurring issues.