Cloaked · 12 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$210K/yr - $260K/yrCloaked is a privacy startup dedicated to rebuilding consumer trust in how personal data is used. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to take ownership of the critical infrastructure powering their privacy platform, leading incident response and building systems that ensure reliability and performance.
Telecom & CommunicationsSoftwareInternetPrivacy
Responsibilities
Define and maintain SLOs/SLAs that balance user experience with engineering velocity
Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting in Datadog to detect production issues
Build resilient architectures that gracefully handle failures
Establish error budgets and use them to make data-driven decisions about feature velocity vs. stability
Lead incident response as primary on-call for infrastructure, taking critical load off leadership
Conduct thorough, blameless post-mortems to prevent recurrence
Build and maintain runbooks that enable faster resolution
Serve as the first line of defense when production issues occur
Identify and eliminate repetitive manual work through intelligent automation
Build self-healing systems that reduce operational burden
Improve deployment pipelines for faster, safer releases
Own reliability for a platform running on AWS with Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Cloudflare, and Terraform — you'll tackle real challenges like JA4 fingerprint monitoring, cluster upgrades, and scaling infrastructure
Qualification
Required
Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar) — building and managing cloud infrastructure programmatically
Deep Kubernetes experience beyond basic deployments — networking, resource management, storage, security contexts, and debugging complex cluster issues
Proficiency in Python, Go, or similar languages; you build tools and automate workflows that others want to use
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling)
Expertise with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana) — distributed tracing, metrics, and log aggregation
Strong Linux/Unix administration background with deep system-level understanding
Production experience with major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) — networking, compute, storage, and managed services
Operational experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL) and their performance characteristics
Deep knowledge of network protocols and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing)
Ability to define meaningful SLIs/SLOs, calculate error budgets, and make data-driven reliability decisions
Experience running incidents under pressure, writing post-mortems that drive change, and implementing preventive measures
Ability to profile applications, identify bottlenecks, and optimize resource utilization
Experience with capacity planning — forecasting growth and scaling infrastructure proactively
Clear communication of complex technical issues to non-technical stakeholders
Documentation that others actually want to read
Preferred
Experience with our stack: AWS, Python, NGINX, Kubernetes, Datadog, ArgoCD, Cloudflare, Terraform, Django
Experience with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Claude Code)
Benefits
401K
Top of the line Health, Dental, and Vision benefits
Flexible work arrangements
Home office stipend
New company laptop (and other tech depending on the role)
Competitive PTO
Monthly health stipend
Late Night Meals
Professional Growth
Company
Cloaked
Cloaked is a consumer-first privacy company that enables individuals to take control of their personal data with unlimited identities.
Founded in 2020
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$29MKey Investors
Human Capital,Lux CapitalHuman Capital
2022-03-29Series A· $25M
2022-01-18Seed· $4M
2021-04-01Seed
Leadership Team
Arjun Bhatnagar
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Abhijay Bhatnagar
Co-Founder
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