Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Remote
Remote
Europe
senior
August 22, 2026
$150-500k
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Job Description
About Remote
We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit pay and manage international teams.
With our core values at heart and future focused work culture our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems asynchronously around the world.
You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
With Innovation as one of the core values we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
Apply now and define the future of work!
This position
As a Senior SRE at Remote you'll work with a high degree of autonomy on complex reliability and platform problems owning the plan and execution of features and projects within our SRE/Platform domain.
You'll contribute to the platform's architecture and reliability strategy translating ambiguous requirements into robust maintainable solutions and raise the technical bar of the engineers around you while collaborating closely with product and security teams in an async-first fully remote environment.
You'll work AI-natively day to day and build reusable AI workflows that make the whole team faster and more reliable not just yourself.
What you’ll bring
- Solid professional experience in SRE DevOps or Platform Engineering.
- Solid hands-on Kubernetes: operating and scaling production clusters and container tooling (Docker) and its ecosystem.
- Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS (or similar).
- Strong infrastructure-as-code practice with Terraform.
- Experience with reliability frameworks: SLOs SLIs error budgets alerting strategies.
- Solid observability background: OpenTelemetry Grafana/Prometheus or similar.
- Proficiency with CI/CD (GitLab CI GitHub Actions or similar) and deployment automation.
- Comfortable with Golang Bash/scripting; broader programming a plus.
- Practical embedded use of AI in infra/ops/dev work agentic workflows with concrete observable results not just familiarity with the tools.
- Clear and thoughtful communication especially in an async-first global setting
- Proactive curious and comfortable taking ownership of challenges
- Collaborative and respectful across cultures time zones and backgrounds
Nice to have
- Experience with 1 back-end programming language (Elixir Nodejs Python etc)
- Experience running and configuring Linux systems in a non-cloud environment
- Security knowledge and capabilities from a defensive and offensive standpoint
What you’ll do
- Lead solution discovery and delivery for reliability and infrastructure problems with real ambiguity complexity or scope.
Autonomously coordinating with other contributors where needed.
- Contribute to the platform's architecture tooling and roadmap.
Influence team priorities and advocate for technical initiatives.
- Help define and operate reliability practices for our platform: SLOs/SLIs error budgets alerting observability.
Take responsibility for the team's operational stance using support/incident metrics to shape technical strategy.
- Resolve cross-team requests identify systemic issues and turn recurring ones into reusable fixes and runbooks rather than one-off answers.
- Work AI-natively and operationalise it for the team: use agentic workflows by default; build reusable prompts skills and tooling embedded in the codebase so others ship faster safely; design agent-ready systems (clean interfaces good observability) that make AI-assisted changes easy to review.
Establish shared standards and domain-level guardrails (secure-by-default patterns CI protections AI-assisted review practices).
- Mentor and give timely actionable feedback to less-senior engineers; participate in hiring onboarding and RFC discussions.
- Collaborate with Security on platform hardening and threat mitigation; contribute to capacity and cost-efficiency of the infrastructure.
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations to rapidly resolve issues and maintain system reliability.
Practicals
- You'll report to: SRE Team Lead
- Team: Engineering
- Location: For this hire due to diversity and timezones requirements we’re prioritising Europe
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with HM
- (async) Infrastructure exercise (you're not expected to spend more than 2 - 4 hours)
- Interview with the team (without any manager in the call so you can really get to know the people and ask all you want to ask)
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Executive Interview
- Offer + Background check (Veremark & Remote)
#LI-DNP
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.
We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates.
We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context.
At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role level and location and our job titles may span more than one career level.
The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location transferable or job-related skills work experience relevant training business needs and market demands.
The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness.
Therefore all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Benefits
As a global company each country works differently but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- budget towards co-working spaces learning and wellness (including gym memberships)
- mental health support services
- stock options
- home office budget & IT equipment
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings).
Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive.
When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting.
Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want apply now!
How to apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups genders sexuality age abilities disability status and any other under-represented group to apply but we prioritize a sense of belonging.
We have 4 ERGs (Women Disability Queer Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team.
During your interviews and beyond we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below.
As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds identities and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable.
We thank you for providing this data if you chose to.
At Remote we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
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