Job Description

The Aviatrix SRE team is a small but highly skilled global group of Systems Engineers/SREs dedicated to ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of Aviatrix's critical systems and services. Our mission is to build and maintain a robust, resilient infrastructure that enables Aviatrix to deliver high-quality services with agility through automation, best practices, and a culture of operational excellence.

About the Role

As a Staff Engineer - Site Reliability Engineering, you'll work independently taking ownership of significant components and systems. You'll mentor junior contributors while driving technical excellence and reliability improvements across the platform.

Responsibilities

Kubernetes: Design and implement complex application lifecycle management, custom operators, and advanced troubleshooting

Infrastructure as Code: Architect comprehensive IaC solutions with advanced configurations and module development

Automation & Development: Design and build sophisticated automation frameworks and tools in Golang and Python

Component Ownership: Take full ownership of significant system components with responsibility for their reliability and performance; define SLA targets and drive achievement

Architecture & Design: Design components and systems with moderate complexity, evaluating tradeoffs and writing comprehensive design documents

Reliability Engineering: Contribute improvements that significantly improve product security, quality, ease of operation, reliability, and performance. Own reliability for major platform components

Automation Excellence: Implement automation frameworks that scale across teams; eliminate entire classes of manual work

Observability: Design comprehensive observability strategies; implement advanced monitoring and distributed tracing

Incident Management: Lead major incident response; establish incident management processes and runbooks

Performance Engineering: Drive system-wide performance improvements; establish performance engineering practices

Collaboration: Lead technical discussions with product engineering; influence architecture decisions across teams

Technical Leadership: Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance on complex problems; drive improvements to engineering processes and operational procedures

Qualifications

Experience: 6+ years with BS in designated Engineering or related field

Advanced Technical Skills: Expert-level proficiency in Golang and Python with system design experience

Cloud Architecture: Extensive experience designing and implementing cloud-native solutions

Infrastructure as Code: Deep understanding of Terragrunt/Terraform, including advanced features and best practices

Kubernetes: Advanced Kubernetes knowledge including operators and Helm

Observability: Expert knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability solutions

Leadership: Demonstrated ability to mentor others and lead technical initiatives

Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for design documentation and presentations

BENEFITS

US

: We cover 100% of employee premiums and 88% of dependent(s) premiums for medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k) match, short and long-term disability, life/AD&D insurance, $1,000/year education reimbursement, and a flexible vacation policy.

Outside the US:

We offer a comprehensive benefits package which, (subject to regional variations) could include pension, private medical for you and dependents, generous holiday allowance, life assurance, long-term disability, annual wellbeing stipend



Your total compensation package will be based on job-related knowledge, education, certifications and location, per our aligned ranges.

About Aviatrix

Aviatrix

is the cloud network security company trusted by more than 500 of the world's leading enterprises. As cloud infrastructures become more complex and costly, the Aviatrix Cloud Network Security platform gives companies back the power, control, security, and simplicity they need to modernize their cloud strategies. Aviatrix is the only secure networking solution built specifically for the cloud, that ensures companies are ready for AI and what's next. Combined with the Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE) Program, the industry's leading secure multicloud networking certification, Aviatrix unifies cloud, networking, and security teams and unlocks greater potential across any cloud.

WE WANT TO INCLUDE YOU

We embrace the fact that not everyone's journey took the same route or started at the same place. If your experience doesn't quite meet the requirements but the opportunity excites you and you believe you could be great, don't let that hold you back from applying. Tell us what you CAN bring and what makes you special.



Aviatrix is a community where everyone's career can grow and we want to help you achieve your goals and be "your best YOU," however that looks. If you're seeking an opportunity where you can be excited to start work every morning with enthusiastic people, make a real difference and be part of something amazing then let's talk. We want to get to know you and how we could grow together.



Aviatrix, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not make hiring decisions based on race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.