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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Jobgether · Canada

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer based in Canada.

This is a high-impact technical leadership role focused on improving reliability across large-scale distributed systems that directly impact millions of customers. You will sit at the core of incident response and production stability, working across engineering teams to identify systemic failure patterns and eliminate them at the root. The role blends hands-on engineering with cross-functional influence, requiring you to translate real production incidents into durable architectural and operational improvements. You will help define and elevate reliability standards across the organization, shaping how systems are built, deployed, and operated. Beyond incident response, you will drive long-term resilience through observability, automation, and safer deployment practices. This is a highly collaborative environment where influence matters as much as execution, and where your work compounds across teams and services. You will also help mature a growing SRE practice, moving it from reactive incident handling to proactive reliability engineering.

Accountabilities:

  • Identify and analyze recurring failure patterns across production systems by reviewing incidents, postmortems, and operational data to uncover systemic root causes.
  • Prioritize reliability improvements based on impact to MTTR, MTTD, and overall customer-facing stability, focusing on high-leverage engineering interventions.
  • Drive the design and adoption of reliability patterns such as resilience mechanisms, safe deployment strategies, observability standards, and dependency protection across engineering teams.
  • Collaborate directly with product and platform teams through code contributions, reviews, and hands-on engineering support to implement durable fixes.
  • Lead technical discussions in incident reviews and operational forums, ensuring clear identification of gaps in monitoring, recovery, and system design.
  • Influence engineering teams across the organization without direct authority to adopt reliability best practices and shared standards.
  • Evangelize and document reliability improvements, ensuring knowledge is shared and scaled across teams rather than remaining isolated fixes.
  • Participate in on-call rotations and incident leadership, supporting real-time response when critical issues arise.
  • Contribute to the evolution of internal SRE practices by mentoring engineers and helping shift the organization toward proactive reliability engineering.
  • Requirements:

    • 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering in large-scale distributed systems.
    • Strong programming ability in at least one language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript) with production-grade code delivery experience.
    • Proven experience improving system reliability through cross-team adoption of engineering practices such as observability, resilience patterns, or deployment safety mechanisms.
    • Strong systems thinking with the ability to identify root causes of complex production issues and apply simple, high-impact solutions.
    • Hands-on experience with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and modern observability platforms.
    • Experience defining and operating with SLOs/SLIs and improving system performance based on reliability metrics.
    • Ability to influence and drive change across teams without direct managerial authority.
    • Clear and effective communicator, able to translate complex technical issues into actionable recommendations.
    • Preferred: experience with chaos engineering, incident management tooling, or internal developer platforms.
    • Preferred: exposure to AI/LLM tools in engineering workflows or production systems.
    • Benefits:

      • Competitive compensation aligned with experience and market benchmarks
      • Remote-first flexibility within Canada
      • Comprehensive health, dental, and wellness benefits
      • Equity and long-term incentive programs (subject to eligibility)
      • Paid time off and flexible work arrangements
      • Learning and development support for technical growth
      • Opportunity to shape and mature a high-impact SRE function
      • Exposure to large-scale distributed systems and global engineering teams

DevOps pay context

Based on 1,148 disclosed DevOps salaries on RoleSuite, the role pays a median of $141K/year, with most offers between $115K and $173K (10th–90th percentile: $100K–$210K).

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