Benchmark Education Company · 4 hours ago
Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expBenchmark Education Company is a leading publisher of educational resources, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability to enhance the reliability and performance of their cloud-based systems. The role involves contributing to feature development, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with teams to promote best practices in reliability.
EducationPublishing
Responsibilities
Contribute to the design, development, and delivery of features that enhance system reliability and scalability
Define, measure, and improve SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets in collaboration with engineering teams
Participate in building a culture of reliability through knowledge sharing, documentation, and process improvements
Implement and improve observability tooling and practices to monitor the health and performance of production systems
Participate in incident management, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and postmortem reviews
Lead smaller initiatives or components of larger projects, ensuring technical quality and operational readiness
Collaborate with software engineering, security, and product teams to ensure resilient and secure system design
Mentor junior engineers, sharing expertise in SRE principles and AWS best practices
Contribute to automation efforts to reduce toil and improve efficiency of operational processes
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Software Engineering with a focus on production operations
Strong knowledge of AWS cloud services and cloud-native architectures
Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, Bash)
Experience with observability tools (e.g., CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines
Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work cross-functionally
Some experience mentoring or coaching junior engineers
Preferred
AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Associate)
Experience leading on-call rotations, capacity planning, and chaos engineering initiatives
Experience with containerization (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes/EKS)
Familiarity with incident response best practices and operational readiness processes
Knowledge of PHP or Java is a plus
Company
Benchmark Education Company
Benchmark Education Company is a publishing company that publishes educational content.
501-1000 employees
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Tom Reycraft
President, Chief Executive Officer, Founder
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