Who We’re Looking ForThe Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team’s centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes. Location While we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL Compensation Fixed Position Rate: $140,000 This role carries a single, non-negotiable Fixed Position Rate to ensure absolute equity and eliminate negotiation bias. ### Key Responsibilities What You’ll Accomplish Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. - Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout - Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools - Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS - Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC) - Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas - Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness - Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge base - Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools - Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment - Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues - Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows - Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety ### Skills, Knowledge and Expertise What You’ll ContributeRequired (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack): - Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) - CI/CD (GitHub Actions) - Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests) - AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3) - FinOps and cloud cost optimization - Observability (Datadog, Sentry) - Agentic AI (Claude Code) - Scripting (Shell, Python) - Track record of collaboration and mentorship - Excellent written communication and documentation skills - Continuous learning - Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems Preferred: - Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC) - Flink - Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS) - Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance) - Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI) - GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation) - REST API - GitOps (ArgoCD) - Hashicorp Vault - Redis - Memcached Education & Experience: - A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience. - 5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles. ### Benefits What We Provide - Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program - 401(k) with employer match - 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents - 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure - 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms - 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption - Monthly wellness allowance - Annual professional and personal development allowance - Work from home office set-up and expense allowances - Flexible work location opportunities - Employer matching toward charitable contributions