Senior Site Reliability Engineer II (Remote)

Drata’s Infrastructure team is a globally distributed team of Cloud Engineers, Software Engineers, and Site Reliability Engineers. We are looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join us in our mission of making Drata services observable, reliable, and scalable. 

We have a great team with people with different backgrounds, skills, interests, and senses of humor. An ideal candidate for this role will enrich and diversify this culture, and, of course, provide incredible technical contributions to not only our team, but to all teams across Drata. 

The person who joins us will be a technical leader, impacting projects and decision making with their insights and experience that they bring. This role, and most roles on the team, requires juggling various responsibilities and adaptability to wearing several different hats. We do our best work when we work open and collaboratively with one another, so we’re looking forward to having another person to work on challenging (and rewarding) problems with. We hope this sounds like the right place for you.

What you’ll do:

• Enable engineering teams to deploy, maintain, and scale their services and ensure that they are correctly monitored, secure and resilient
• Define and implement SLOs and related SLIs for Drata’s services
• Build, practice and maintain the devops culture and principles for efficiency and automation by focusing on using automation to upkeep the reliability
• Propose, create, lead, and execute projects related to our internal platforms, system reliability, and automation by drafting project proposals, communicating requirements, and keeping stakeholders engaged and informed
• Identify and develop processes, tools, automation, infrastructure improvements and software changes to address top operational issues
• Enforce architectural governance, deployment standards and infrastructure best practices
• Participate in an on-call rotation and incident management to resolve active incidents
• Partner with and provide guidance to the rest of the SRE and Cloud Engineering teams to ensure smooth and continuous delivery of Drata services to customers
• Create and keep up-to date clean and comprehensive technical documentation
• Maintain high standards for quality of our codebase and processes, making everyone around you more effective in their own roles

What you’ll bring: 

• 6+ years of combined experience across Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Cloud Engineering, and building and maintaining scalable, resilient services
• Robust knowledge of cloud computing technologies like AWS (including GovCloud), GCP, Terraform, Docker, Ansible, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kubernetes, and Linux
• Experience in building software systems as a software engineer
• Experience with developing tooling and automation in Bash, Python, and Golang
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline automation using GitHub Actions (experience with Jenkins is a plus)
• Experience working with relational databases (proficiency in MySQL is a plus)
• Experience with disaster recovery practices and incident management
• Good understanding of observability concepts such as monitoring, logging, tracing, and metrics (experience with Datadog and OpenTelemetry is a plus)
• Experience with Javascript/Node.js ecosystem is a plus
• Ability to take ownership of problems and act on them independently in a constantly evolving environment

Benefits:

• Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge
• HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)
• 100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D benefits
• Learning & Development: $500 annually towards professional development opportunities + $250 annually towards personal development opportunities
• Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries
• 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn, newly adopted, or foster child
• Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home + $1,000 annually to cover necessary business related items for your home office
• 401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes

This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The applicable salary range for each US-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers based on the cost of labor for that geographic area. The expected salary ranges for this role are below, subject to change. 

Tier 1: $192,000  - $237,200

Tier 2: $172,800 - $213,500

Tier 3: $153,600 - $189,800

You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s leveling and compensation–including a candidate’s professional background and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.