Senior SRE

**Who We’re Looking For **The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team’s centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes. **Location** While we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL **Compensation** **Fixed Position Rate:** $140,000 _This role carries a single, non-negotiable Fixed Position Rate to ensure absolute equity and eliminate negotiation bias._ Key Responsibilities -------------------------- **What You’ll Accomplish** _Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions._ * Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout * Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools * Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS * Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC) * Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas * Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness * Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge base * Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools * Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment * Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues * Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows * Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety Skills, Knowledge and Expertise ------------------------------------- **What You’ll Contribute Required (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack):** * Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) * CI/CD (GitHub Actions) * Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests) * AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3) * FinOps and cloud cost optimization * Observability (Datadog, Sentry) * Agentic AI (Claude Code) * Scripting (Shell, Python) * Track record of collaboration and mentorship * Excellent written communication and documentation skills * Continuous learning * Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems **Preferred:** * Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC) * Flink * Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS) * Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance) * Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI) * GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation) * REST API * GitOps (ArgoCD) * Hashicorp Vault * Redis * Memcached **Education & Experience:** * A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience. * 5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles. Benefits -------------- **What We Provide** * Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program * 401(k) with employer match * 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents * 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure * 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms * 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption * Monthly wellness allowance * Annual professional and personal development allowance * Work from home office set-up and expense allowances * Flexible work location opportunities * Employer matching toward charitable contributions