Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Internet Security Platform/rEMOTE

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Internet Security Platform

Location: Remote

Experience: 5–10 years

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of our internet-facing security platform. You will work on high-availability systems that protect and process large-scale network traffic, driving automation, observability, and incident response excellence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure
• Maintain uptime and performance of internet security platforms (e.g., WAF, DDoS protection, gateways)
• Implement and improve observability (monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and operational workflows
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems
• Collaborate with security, platform, and development teams to harden systems
• Optimize system performance, latency, and cost efficiency
• Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or production engineering
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix systems and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S)
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure)
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Go, or Bash)
• Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc.)

Security-Focused Requirements

• Understanding of internet security concepts (TLS, firewalls, WAF, Zero Trust)
• Experience mitigating DDoS attacks and handling large-scale traffic patterns
• Familiarity with CDN, edge networks, and secure proxy architectures
• Knowledge of vulnerability management and system hardening

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience operating high-scale distributed systems
• Familiarity with incident management tools and on-call practices
• Exposure to compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
• Experience with service mesh (e.g., Istio, Linkerd)

Leadership & Impact

• Drive reliability best practices across teams
• Mentor junior engineers and improve operational maturity
• Lead critical incident handling and continuous improvement initiatives

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
• Clear communication during high-pressure incidents
• Ownership mindset with a focus on reliability and security

Nice to Have

• Experience working in cybersecurity or internet-scale platforms
• Contributions to open-source SRE or security tooling