SRE Engineer

SRE Engineer Mountain View, CA

Open to contract & full time

Role Description
We re seeking an experienced, highly collaborative SRE to partner with product teams
and tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges. You ll be hands-on in designing,
building, and operating our cloud platform and driving the reliability, performance, and security that empower our engineering organization.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at DrumWave, you will:
Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate provisioning and deployments with
Terraform and integrate best-practice pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
Reliability Engineering: Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build dashboards & alerts to proactively measure and improve system health.
Security & Compliance: Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging for compliance.
Monitoring & Observability: Instrument services with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting, aid teams in alerting, custom metrics, and dashboarding
Incident Management: Own on-call rotations, lead real-time incident response, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvements.
Cost Optimization: Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and leverage concrete data to decide on optimal methods to control cloud spend at scale.
Documentation & Mentorship: Author runbooks, standards, and best-practice guides and coach dev teams on implementing modern DevOps, reliability, and security patterns.

Qualifications
Have 5+ years of experience running production critical systems
Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices
Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale
Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure services
Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and Postgres
Strong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking components
Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD systemintegrations
Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST,
TLS, DNS, etc...)

Nice to Have s:
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related
field.
Experience with ArgoCD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD pipeline solutions
Working knowledge of Python, Golang, and Helm templating languages
Node.js experience a plus, including running scalable, resilient Node microservices
Grasp of foundational security best practices for cloud infrastructure
Awareness of Terragrunt, managing Terraform state, and optimal project structure
Seasoned in production readiness fundamentals amidst a fast moving team