Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The cloud-native, operational database built for speed and scale.
DevOps
Senior Software Engineer
Remote
101 - 500 Employees
3+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS

Description For Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to drive their Kubernetes product strategy for their managed service offering. This is a key role that will shape the future of their container orchestration and cloud infrastructure.

As a Senior SRE, you'll be at the forefront of designing and implementing elastic Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers and on-premises environments. You'll work closely with the engineering team to make critical technical decisions that impact both team and company success.

The role combines deep technical expertise in container orchestration, cloud infrastructure, and system reliability with the opportunity to influence product strategy. You'll be responsible for ensuring the managed service platform meets strict SLA requirements while scaling efficiently.

SingleStore is a cloud-native, operational database company that has raised over $100M from top investors including GV, Accel Partners, and Khosla Ventures. They serve major enterprise customers like Uber, Akamai, Dell EMC, Samsung, and Comcast.

The company offers:

  • Work on cutting-edge cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes deployments
  • Opportunity to shape technical direction of a fast-growing database company
  • Collaborative environment with strong engineering culture
  • Choice of working from offices in Seattle, San Francisco, Portland or remotely
  • Competitive compensation and benefits

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SRE who wants to work on distributed systems at scale while having significant technical impact. The ideal candidate will combine deep Linux/Unix knowledge, Kubernetes expertise, and strong programming skills to help build and scale SingleStore's managed database service.

Last updated 16 hours ago

Responsibilities For Senior Site Reliability Engineer

  • Help craft production container orchestration strategy
  • Design, build, and run elastic Kubernetes clusters across on-prem, AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud environments
  • Design systems for peak reliability, scalability, and performance
  • Monitor and maintain data center environment performance and health
  • Participate in SLA-driven on-call rotation including after-hours and weekends

Requirements For Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Kubernetes
Python
Go
Linux
  • Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes and container ecosystem
  • Strong working knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet)
  • Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration
  • Familiar with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex production software
  • C, Python, POSIX shell programming experience
  • B.S. Degree in Computer Science or related field

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