# Senior Site Reliability Engineer Remote from[EMEA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/emea.md)Salary, yearly, USD 53,300 - 119,850Department [DevOps & Infrastructure](https://jobicy.com/categories/admin.md) Employment type Full Time, Job posted30 Jun 2026Apply before30 Jul 2026Experience level Senior Views / Applies 11 / 1 [About company](https://jobicy.com/company/remote.md) [Share](#share) About [Remote](https://jobicy.com/company/remote.md) Helping companies hire and pay global teams effortlessly. * [Human Resources](https://jobicy.com/company-category/human-resources.md) * 2019 Actively Hiring Verified job posting This job post has been [manually reviewed](https://jobicy.com/tools/help-center/employee/how-does-jobicy-verify-the-legitimacy-of-remote-job-listings.md) for authenticity and compliance. Tailor Resume Check Job Fit Cover Letter ### Tailor my resume to this job Discover how to best rewrite and optimize your resume for this specific job. 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The position requires solid experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with hands-on Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability skills. You will work AI-natively, building reusable AI workflows to enhance team efficiency. This is a fully remote, async-first role with a focus on collaboration across global teams. ### Role DNA Job Complexity Easy Hard Pace & Pressure Relaxed Fast-paced Autonomy Level Guided Full Ownership Communication Load Independent Highly Collaborative AI Insight The role requires expert-level skills in Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability, along with AI integration, making it challenging. However, the support for async work and defined responsibilities balance the difficulty to a 4. ### Salary Analysis Median Below Market USD86,575US Market USD120k – 200k 0 USD220k AI Insight The offered salary range of $53,300-$119,850 is below the typical US market range for Senior SRE roles, which often starts at $120,000. The median of $86,575 may be competitive for global markets but is relatively low for US-based candidates with strong experience. ### Core Skills Required [Site Reliability Engineering](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Site+Reliability+Engineering.md) [Kubernetes](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Kubernetes.md) [Terraform](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Terraform.md) [AWS](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AWS.md) [DevOps](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=DevOps.md) [Observability](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Observability.md) [CI/CD](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=CICD.md) [Golang](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Golang.md) [AI Integration](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=AI+Integration.md) [Remote Work](https://jobicy.com/jobs?search_keywords=Remote+Work.md) ### Cover Letter Sample Dear Hiring Team, I am writing to express my strong interest in the Senior Site Reliability Engineer position at Remote. With extensive experience in Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability, I have successfully built and scaled reliable platforms for global teams. Your focus on AI-native workflows and async collaboration aligns perfectly with my approach to infrastructure and DevOps. I am particularly drawn to Remote's mission of simplifying global employment and its commitment to innovation. I look forward to contributing to your platform's reliability and helping shape its architecture. Thank you for considering my application. Sincerely, [Your Name] Copy ### Sample Interview Questions Describe your experience with Kubernetes in production. How do you ensure cluster reliability and scalability?I have managed multi-cluster Kubernetes environments using tools like Rancher and EKS. For reliability, I implement pod auto-scaling, resource quotas, and proactive monitoring with Prometheus. I also use Terraform to manage cluster infrastructure as code, ensuring consistency and rapid scaling.How do you approach setting and tracking SLOs and SLIs? Can you give an example?I define SLOs based on user journeys, e.g., 99.9% uptime for API responses. I track SLIs like latency and error rate using Prometheus and set alerting thresholds. In a previous role, I reduced p99 latency by 30% by optimizing caching and database queries.This role involves AI-native workflows. Can you describe a project where you integrated AI into infrastructure or operations?I built an AI-driven incident response system using GPT-4 to analyze logs and suggest runbook steps. It reduced mean time to acknowledge incidents by 40%. I also created agentic workflows in GitLab CI to auto-remediate common issues.How do you handle ambiguity and prioritize tasks in a remote, async environment?I start by clarifying goals and constraints through written documents and async communication. I break down problems into smaller tasks and prioritize based on impact and urgency. For example, I created a priority matrix for incident response and infrastructure improvements.Tell me about a time you mentored a junior engineer. How did you approach it?I paired with a junior engineer on a Terraform project. I provided code reviews and pair programming sessions, gradually increasing their ownership. I also shared documentation on best practices and encouraged them to ask questions. They successfully deployed a production VPC within a month. ## About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! ## This position As a Senior SRE at Remote, you’ll work with a high degree of autonomy on complex reliability and platform problems, owning the plan and execution of features and projects within our SRE/Platform domain. You’ll contribute to the platform’s architecture and reliability strategy, translating ambiguous requirements into robust, maintainable solutions and raise the technical bar of the engineers around you while collaborating closely with product and security teams in an async-first, fully remote environment. You’ll work AI-natively day to day and build reusable AI workflows that make the whole team faster and more reliable, not just yourself. ## What you’ll bring * Solid professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering. * Solid hands-on Kubernetes: operating and scaling production clusters and container tooling (Docker) and its ecosystem. * Experience building and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS (or similar). * Strong infrastructure-as-code practice with Terraform. * Experience with reliability frameworks: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alerting strategies. * Solid observability background: OpenTelemetry, Grafana/Prometheus or similar. * Proficiency with CI/CD (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar) and deployment automation. * Comfortable with Golang, Bash/scripting; broader programming a plus. * Practical, embedded use of AI in infra/ops/dev work, agentic workflows with concrete, observable results, not just familiarity with the tools. * Clear and thoughtful communication, especially in an async-first, global setting * Proactive, curious, and comfortable taking ownership of challenges * Collaborative and respectful across cultures, time zones, and backgrounds Nice to have * Experience with 1 back-end programming language (Elixir, Nodejs, Python, etc) * Experience running and configuring Linux systems in a non-cloud environment * Security knowledge and capabilities from a defensive and offensive standpoint ## What you’ll do * Lead solution discovery and delivery for reliability and infrastructure problems with real ambiguity, complexity, or scope. Autonomously, coordinating with other contributors where needed. * Contribute to the platform’s architecture, tooling, and roadmap. Influence team priorities and advocate for technical initiatives. * Help define and operate reliability practices for our platform: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, alerting, observability. Take responsibility for the team’s operational stance, using support/incident metrics to shape technical strategy. * Resolve cross-team requests, identify systemic issues, and turn recurring ones into reusable fixes and runbooks rather than one-off answers. * Work AI-natively and operationalise it for the team: use agentic workflows by default; build reusable prompts, skills, and tooling embedded in the codebase so others ship faster, safely; design agent-ready systems (clean interfaces, good observability) that make AI-assisted changes easy to review. Establish shared standards and domain-level guardrails (secure-by-default patterns, CI protections, AI-assisted review practices). * Mentor and give timely, actionable feedback to less-senior engineers; participate in hiring, onboarding, and RFC discussions. * Collaborate with Security on platform hardening and threat mitigation; contribute to capacity and cost-efficiency of the infrastructure. * Participate in incident response and on-call rotations to rapidly resolve issues and maintain system reliability. ## Practicals * You’ll report to: SRE Team Lead * Team: Engineering * Location: For this hire, due to diversity and timezones requirements, we’re prioritising Europe * Start date: As soon as possible ## Application process * Interview with recruiter * Interview with HM * (async) Infrastructure exercise (you’re not expected to spend more than 2 – 4 hours) * Interview with the team (without any manager in the call so you can really get to know the people and ask all you want to ask) * Bar Raiser Interview * Executive Interview * Offer + Background check ([Veremark & Remote](https://app.notion.com/p/Veremark-Remote-96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b?pvs=21)) #LI-DNP Remote’s [Total Rewards philosophy](https://www.notion.so/remotecom/people-Total-Rewards-1945bce8d3924ece9421ba8630f57b0c) is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries. At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide – here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change. At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis. The annual salary range for this full-time position is$53,300—$119,850 USD ## Benefits Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at [remote.com/r/benefits](http://remote.com/r/benefits). As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters: * work from anywhere * flexible paid time off * flexible working hours (we are [async](https://remote.com/async)) * 16 weeks paid parental leave * mental health support services * stock options * learning budget * home office budget & IT equipment * budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces ## How you’ll plan your day (and life) We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at [remote.com/async](https://remote.com/async). You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs. If that sounds like something you want, apply now! ## How to apply * Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format. * We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote. * If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead. Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to. At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote’s AI guidelines check see [here](https://www.notion.so/remotecom/Guidelines-on-using-AI-when-applying-for-a-job-at-Remote-11ccb4dadab4805f80a7c73b6567bd8f). Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 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