Blitzy
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Cambridge, MA · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$180kDetected 41 days ago
PythonGoBashAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPrometheusGrafanaDatadogDevOpsSite Reliability EngineeringMachine LearningCybersecurityIncident ResponseCommunication
About the role
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Blitzy's Cambridge headquarters, you will be the backbone of our platform's reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- You'll work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure, ensuring our AI-powered development platform remains highly available and performant as we scale rapidly.
- In 30 days: You have a deep understanding of Blitzy's infrastructure architecture, have identified key reliability risks, and are actively contributing to on-call rotations.
Responsibilities
- We move quickly and decisively to innovate internally and deliver exceptional software externally.
- This is a high-impact, hands-on role for an engineer who thrives in a fast-moving environment and takes deep ownership of the systems they build.
- Define and enforce SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets; lead blameless postmortems and drive systemic improvements.
- Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and deployment infrastructure.
- Own observability: design and maintain logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry).
- Drive capacity planning, performance benchmarking, and cost optimization across our infrastructure.
Requirements
- Familiarity with eBPF, service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd), or advanced networking.
Nice to have
- Champion security best practices within the infrastructure and deployment layers.
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
- Strong proficiency in at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred)
- experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent).
- Proven track record designing and maintaining high-availability, distributed systems.
- Deep expertise in observability tooling, incident management, and on-call practices.
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
Compensation
- $160,000 - $180,000 + equity eligibility based on performance
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Blitzy's Cambridge headquarters, you will be the backbone of our platform's reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
- You'll work at the intersection of software engineering and infrastructure, ensuring our AI-powered development platform remains highly available and performant as we scale rapidly.
- This is a high-impact, hands-on role for an engineer who thrives in a fast-moving environment and takes deep ownership of the systems they build.
- What Success Looks Like
- In 30 days: You have a deep understanding of Blitzy's infrastructure architecture, have identified key reliability risks, and are actively contributing to on-call rotations.
Company info
- Led by two pioneering co-founders we are one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., creating our own category of enterprise autonomous software development.
- We automate thousands of hours of software development for our customers, which includes strong representation within the Fortune 500.
- How we work:
- We move Blitzy Fast: Time is both our company's and our clients' most precious asset.
- Championship Mindset: We operate like a professional sports team.
- We win as a team by holding ourselves and each other to high standards, collaborating in-person, and remaining focused on the mission.
- Passion for Invention: We're pushing the frontier of what's possible, requiring constant innovation and iteration.
- We Work for the Customer: We focus on delivering outsized value to the customers we work with and expanding those relationships into deep, meaningful partnerships.
- We believe in being 'everyday athletes'-taking care of ourselves so we can bring our best minds to work.
- We promote great sleep, movement, and restorative activities for optimal mental performance.
- It makes for a happier and more productive team.
- Blitzy is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.
- We believe different perspectives make us stronger.
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