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LeadFull-timePythonAWSKubernetesTerraformGoAPI
Salary Range
$153,000 - $207,000 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE organization as a technical specialist at Archer Aviation. In this role, you will focus on engineering the systems that make our operations resilient, building custom internal tools, refining our observability stack, and ensuring our SLO/SLI frameworks are technically sound.
Key Responsibilities
- →Standardize SRE Procedures: Design and implement consistent technical procedures for incident response, error budget tracking, and production readiness across our service catalog.
- →Engineer SLOs & SLIs: Technically instrument our services to capture precise SLIs and develop the backend logic that calculates Error Budgets and triggers automated alerts based on burn rates.
- →Build Special Purpose Tooling: Write production-grade code to build internal tools that solve specific infrastructure gaps, such as custom Kubernetes operators, automated remediation scripts, or deployment safety gates.
- →Executive & Operational Dashboards: Create a unified observability layer with deep-dive Grafana/Datadog dashboards for real-time debugging and high-level views for executive stakeholders.
- →Toil Reduction: Identify repetitive operational tasks across the group and build the automation necessary to eliminate them.
- →Collaborative Engineering: Work within the SRE group to provide expert-level code reviews for infrastructure changes and contribute to the collective codebase of our internal platforms.
Requirements
- ✓Experience: 8+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or high-scale DevOps environments.
- ✓Advanced Programming: Strong software engineering fundamentals with comfort writing microservices, custom APIs, and configuring load balancers.
- ✓Metric Logic: Deep understanding of how to derive meaningful SLIs from complex distributed systems.
- ✓Orchestration: Expert-level Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, or self-managed).
- ✓IaC: Advanced Terraform or Pulumi.
- ✓Observability: Mastery of the "Three Pillars" (Logs, Metrics, Traces) using tools like Prometheus, Jaeger, or Datadog.
- ✓Communication: Ability to distill complex system health data into clear, actionable reports for both engineers and business leadership.
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