[Remote] Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. FloSports exists to elevate the communities, athletes, and sports that have too often been overlooked. As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will be a technical leader responsible for driving architecture, reliability, and developer enablement strategy, while collaborating closely with other engineers. The role focuses on automating processes and improving infrastructure to enhance developer efficiency and system reliability.ResponsibilitiesLead the technical architecture and execution of our landmark migration from a legacy GCP environment to a modern, scalable infrastructure on AWS EKSArchitect, design, and drive our core infrastructure, defining the patterns for Terraform and GitOps that the rest of the organization will followChampion and drive our SLO-driven culture, setting the strategy for how we define, measure, and implement SLOs for critical user journeys, guided by the four Golden Signals (Latency, Traffic, Errors, and Saturation)Lead the design and development of critical tooling and automation in Node.js and Go to solve entire classes of problems for our developersLead the architectural evolution of our in-house, K6-based load testing platform, ensuring it can scale to meet future product demandsAct as a primary subject matter expert for our Istio service mesh, driving its architecture, adoption, and optimizationSpearhead and own high-priority initiatives, including the development of agentic workflows and intelligent automation for SRE domains like proactive scaling and automated remediationAct as a technical leader by participating in our blameless on-call rotation, mentoring other engineers through complex incidents and ensuring all post-mortems lead to systemic, long-term improvementsSkillsExtensive Experience: 8-10+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Software Engineering, with a proven track record of operating at a Staff levelProven Technical Leadership: You have a history of mentoring other senior engineers, influencing technical direction across multiple teams, and leading large-scale projects to completionExpert Coder: You are a polyglot with deep expertise in languages like Node.js or Go and a history of building and maintaining critical automation and servicesKubernetes Architect: You have an expert-level, architectural understanding of Kubernetes (EKS preferred), including networking, custom controllers, and control plane optimizationInfrastructure as Code Expert: You are a Terraform expert who has designed and implemented large-scale, reusable, and secure IaC frameworks, not just consumed themObservability Architect: You have designed and implemented observability strategies from the ground up, leveraging platforms like Datadog to create actionable SLOs and provide deep system insightCI/CD Architect: You have designed, built, and scaled complex CI/CD systems (ideally with GitHub Actions and self-hosted runners) that are used by an entire engineering organizationExpert Systems Thinker: You can decompose highly ambiguous, complex, cross-functional problems into solvable parts and lead the technical solution from concept to productionAgentic Systems & Intelligent Automation: You have successfully designed and deployed agentic systems or other forms of intelligent automation to solve SRE problems and can speak to the tangible resultsArchitectural Leadership in a large-scale cloud migration (e.g., GCP to AWS)Performance Testing: Deep experience building or scaling custom load testing frameworks, especially with K6Istio Expertise: Deep, practical experience managing Istio in a large, multi-tenant production environmentFamiliarity with serverless architectures, especially SSTExperience orchestrating the deprecation and removal of legacy configuration management systemsBenefitsRecognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American StatesmanFlexibility at work - you can take control of your profession and personal scheduleAll-hands events hosted in beautiful Austin, TexasAnnual equity awards for all top performersCompetitive and comprehensive medical, dental and vision plansPeace of mind through company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability and life insuranceGenerous 401(K) company match vested immediatelyProgressive parental leave policiesFlexible paid time offHack-a-thons and a full calendar of team-building and social eventsCompany donation to youth teams and leagues that our employees coachStocked snack bar, catered lunch and breakfast tacos every weekCompany OverviewFloSports is a media and events company that provides live streaming of premier events, original video programming, and weekly studio shows. It was founded in 2006, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is http://www.flosports.tv/.Company H1B SponsorshipFloSports has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 1 in 2024. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.