Semios
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
British Columbia, Canada · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$140k-$160kDetected 2 days ago
PythonGoRubyBashGitAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsJenkinsLinuxPrometheusDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringLLMsLeadershipCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- The Semios Group includes trusted brands such as Semios, Agworld, Altrac, and Greenbook.
- Who you are: You're driven by purpose and motivated by work that matters.
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will play a key role in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of our infrastructure and services.
Responsibilities
- Leadership & Collaboration Lead the delivery of infrastructure projects.
- Plan and perform higher-risk maintenance.
- Manage your productivity and workload in a work-from-home environment System Reliability & Performance Use a data-driven approach to identify changes to the product architecture to improve reliability, performance, and availability.
- Identify parts of the system that do not scale and drive solutions for these problem areas.
- Maintain and improve Service Level Indicators (SLI) that align with availability and performance targets.
- Build quality into the team's work by encouraging refactoring, testing, and breaking up the team's work into small, releasable pieces.
- Be familiar with building delivery pipelines with Buildkite or similar.
- NATS - experience running or building on NATS (or comparable messaging/streaming systems) for event-driven and distributed architectures.
Requirements
- We want you to succeed, so you will need: Ideal Experience 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineering roles supporting production cloud environments.
Nice to have
- AI/LLM upskilling - comfort using AI and agentic tooling (e.g., Claude Code) to accelerate investigation, automation, and delivery.
- Service mesh (Envoy / Istio) - hands-on experience deploying and operating a service mesh for traffic management, observability, and secure service-to-service communication.
- Preferred Tech Stack: AWS (preferred), GCP/Azure, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), Buildkite/GitHub Actions/Jenkins, Python/Ruby/Go, Datadog/New Relic/Prometheus, Git (GitHub/GitLab), strong Linux.
- Ideal Experience 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure Engineering roles supporting production cloud environments.
- 3+ years of experience in a senior or technical leadership capacity, with demonstrated ownership of critical production systems and mentoring of engineers.
- Skills Proven experience implementing and managing observability stacks (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, Splunk) and driving improvements to SLIs/SLOs.
- Experience in incident management, including participation in on-call rotations and leading post-incident reviews with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Nice to Have AI/LLM upskilling - comfort using AI and agentic tooling (e.g., Claude Code) to accelerate investigation, automation, and delivery.
Skills
- Have good knowledge of Linux and bash or similar.
- Be versed in the delivery of a SaaS product on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Have strong programming skills (Ruby, Python, Go, etc.).
- Be competent with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
- Have experience with Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, or similar technologies.
- Have experience with CI/CD pipelines on Buildkite or similar platforms.
- Have strong version control skills with Git.
- Be experienced with increasing monitoring and observability using Datadog or similar tools (New Relic, Splunk, etc.).
- Demonstrate a strong automation mindset, with a focus on eliminating repetitive tasks through scripting, tooling, and documentation.
- Enjoy delivering quickly and iterating fast.
Compensation
- $140,000 to $160,000 per year We publish a salary range to provide transparency and represent the full growth potential of the role; as a result, offers are made based on demonstrated mastery and experience and generally fall near the midpoint.
Benefits
- We welcome all applicants regardless of race, gender, orientation, sexual identity, economic class, ability, disability, age, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, or status.
- Recharge: Generous vacation policy, company-paid holidays and year-end winter break.
Company info
- Founded in 2010, Semios Group is a leading agricultural technology company helping growers, agronomists, and ag retailers manage over 200 million acres across five countries.
- Semios pioneered variable-rate pheromone-based mating disruption in orchards and has since expanded into a comprehensive portfolio covering crop protection, water management, frost control, automation, and a leading farm management information system.
- We continue to drive the next generation of digital agriculture, supporting growers, agronomists and ag retailers in improving sustainability and profitability.
- Our innovative work has been recognized with several industry awards, including: AgTech Breakthrough - Smart Irrigation Company & Pest Management Solution of the Year Thrive Top 50 Google for Startups Accelerator Cohort Global Cleantech Top 100 We know our journey is only achievable by having a great team who shares ideas, tries new things, and learns as we go.
- You're looking for more than a role, you want to be part of a growing, forward-thinking company solving real-world challenges to improve how farming works, today and for the future.
- Operating within a high-performing engineering team, this role bridges the gap between development and operations, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and resilience.
- You will use your technical expertise and leadership skills to drive improvements across systems and processes, ensuring we deliver high-quality, reliable products to our customers.
- This is a hands-on role where your impact will be felt across both technical execution and team development.
- You will be part of a team operating across time-zones and global regions.
- Generous vacation policy, company-paid holidays and year-end winter break.
- Office location that is convenient via transit and bike paths At Semios Group, we value the full range of experience and perspectives people bring-not just what's listed in a job description.
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