Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Staff-level individual contributor on Xometry's SRE team, defining the technical strategy for reliability of the company's manufacturing marketplace. Day to day: architecting scalable AWS/Kubernetes platforms, running observability (Coralogix, Sentry) and CI/CD (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD), leading cross-functional initiatives, and mentoring engineers. Hybrid role based in Waltham, MA.
- Compensation
- $165K–$190K / yr
- Location
- Waltham, MA
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Category
- Sre
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 8+ years professional experience in infrastructure management or backend software development in a fast-paced, product-driven environment
- Deep technical expertise in one or more of: Python, JavaScript, or Unix Shell
- Extensive AWS experience: architecting, deploying, monitoring, and scaling production workloads across multiple accounts and regions
- Deep expertise with Terraform, Kubernetes, advanced CI/CD pipelines, and Docker/containerization best practices
- Proven experience leading technical projects with significant cross-functional impact
- Comfortable in an operational environment, including acting as escalation point for complex issues outside the on-call schedule
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, comfortable engaging with technical and executive stakeholders
Full description
Xometry (NASDAQ: XMTR) powers the industries of today and tomorrow by connecting the people with big ideas to the manufacturers who can bring them to life. Xometry’s digital marketplace gives manufacturers the critical resources they need to grow their business while also making it easy for buyers at Fortune 1000 companies to tap into global manufacturing capacity.
Xometry is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Organization. In this role as a senior individual contributor, you will define the technical strategy and direction for the reliability and performance of our infrastructure and software systems. You will lead complex, cross-functional initiatives, mentor senior engineers, and influence key architectural and business decisions across our technology organization. You will utilize your deep technical expertise to architect and implement highly reliable and scalable infrastructure solutions that empower our technology organization to quickly and safely deliver features to our customers at scale.
How You’ll Contribute:
- Lead the resolution of the most complex, cross-cutting technical challenges and drive them to completion, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
- Define the long-term technical roadmap and strategy for core SRE platforms and services
- Architect, scope, and drive delivery of major engineering initiatives, balancing trade-offs between effort, risk, and long-term business impact
- Set the standard for clean, efficient, and well-documented code, focusing on core system improvements and features
- Collaborate effectively across teams, communicating clearly on progress, blockers, and outcomes to technical and executive stakeholders
- Provide technical mentorship to engineers across the organization and drive organization-wide adoption of best practices for operational excellence, observability, and infrastructure security
- Demonstrate accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement in all aspects of your work
- Develop, configure, and maintain underlying platforms for deployed software (AWS accounts and networking, kubernetes clusters, and similar systems), focusing on architectural design and scaling
- Develop, configure, and maintain observability and monitoring tools (Coralogix, Sentry, etc.), including defining SLOs and SLIs
- Develop, configure, and maintain software development (CI/CD) tools (github actions runners, ArgoCD, etc)