MeridianLink
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)
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About the role
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on our cloud engineering team, you'll keep our production environment healthy, secure, and running smoothly.
- Your work will span the operational side of the software development life cycle - from deployment to maintenance and updates - always striving for continuous improvement.
- You'll keep our infrastructure clean, easily deployable, and scalable, creating a stable operating environment for the whole team.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day administration across AWS services, accounts, and access, as well as database administration across PostgreSQL and our other data stores.
- Own backup posture across databases, S3 buckets, and queues
- verify restores regularly and maintain a tested disaster recovery plan.
- Lead production debugging and incident response: build and maintain runbooks, participate in the on-call rotation, and resolve queue and dead-letter-queue failures through retry, redrive, and recovery.
- Own backup posture across databases, S3 buckets, and queues; verify restores regularly and maintain a tested disaster recovery plan.
Requirements
- Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Bachelor's degree and 4-6 years of related experience or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability, or platform operations, with significant responsibility for production systems.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, with an emphasis on serverless services (Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, S3).
- comfort administering other data stores.
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as TypeScript, Python, and bash for production automation and operational tooling.
- Strong understanding of Linux, DNS, TLS, Docker, GitHub Actions, and infrastructure as code (SST, Pulumi, or Terraform).
- Experience with production monitoring and alerting, incident response, and on-call ownership.
- Strong database administration experience: PostgreSQL operations, backup and recovery, and query performance
Benefits
- Share your knowledge of production operations with the team, fostering a culture of learning and growth.
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