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Salary Range
$30,600 - $41,400 /year
This salary is estimated based on similar roles. The actual salary may vary.
About the Role
We are looking for an expert-level Reliability Engineer to join Confluent Cloud, a multi-cloud streaming platform that processes millions of events per second. This role combines hands-on technical work with strategic program ownership to drive proactive reliability improvements and prevent incidents before they occur.
Key Responsibilities
- →Analyze systemic failure patterns and design improvements that prevent incident recurrence
- →Define and maintain SLO/SLA frameworks; use error budgets to guide reliability investments
- →Build tooling and automation to reduce incident response toil and scale team impact
- →Own Rootly configuration, workflows, and integrations with PagerDuty, Jira, Confluence, and Slack
- →Analyze reliability data to identify systemic improvements; build dashboards that drive action
- →Design scalable reliability standards that reduce reactive workload over time
- →Coach teams through post-mortems and on developing actionable corrective actions
- →Develop and deliver training programs for engineering teams at all levels
- →Partner with engineering leaders to elevate reliability practices
Requirements
- ✓10+ years in SRE, incident management, or reliability engineering
- ✓Cloud experience with at least one of AWS, GCP, or Azure
- ✓Deep expertise with incident management tooling (Rootly, PagerDuty, or similar platforms)
- ✓Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes at scale—Kafka/event streaming expertise preferred
- ✓Deep experience with observability: metrics, logging, tracing
- ✓Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
- ✓Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release processes
- ✓Systems thinking: understanding how infrastructure design choices affect failure modes and recovery
- ✓Familiarity with SLO/SLA frameworks
- ✓Track record as a trusted advisor across engineering organizations
- ✓Experience driving org-wide process and cultural changes
- ✓Strong written communication (design docs, one-pagers, runbooks)
- ✓Post-mortem facilitation experience
- ✓Experience with async collaboration across time zones
- ✓Large company experience navigating reliability/incident programs at 500+ engineer organizations
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