Senior Software Engineer - SRE
LaddersAbout the role
For our client, we are seeking a Senior Software Engineer - SRE to join the team of a leader in the Finance & Insurance space.
This role will focus on strengthening reliability across product teams by improving operational maturity, observability, and incident readiness. You will partner closely with engineers to define service-level objectives, review designs for resilience, and turn learnings from incidents into lasting process improvements. The position also requires hands-on work in the codebase and close collaboration with on-call responders to support a dependable customer experience.
Location: Remote - US based candidates only, no visa sponsorship available
Compensation: $200,700 – $250,900 annually
Responsibilities
Embed within product teams to enhance operational maturity
Conduct regular game day exercises to improve incident preparedness
Dive into Haskell and TypeScript code to apply reliability techniques
Define and steer service-level objectives (SLOs) linked to customer outcomes
Review design documents and code for reliability best practices
Identify and address observability gaps impacting incident response
Support the on-call rotation to refine processes and learning from incidents
Qualifications
5-7 years of Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience
Proven track record of influencing reliability improvements in an organization
Strong expertise with PostgreSQL
Experience authoring and operating Temporal workflows
Familiarity with observability platforms such as Grafana or Honeycomb
Knowledge of OpenTelemetry
Benefits
Equity options
Comprehensive benefits package
Highly competitive salary ranges
Flexible work environment encouraging autonomy
Opportunities for professional growth and development
Our client is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification—your background could be exactly what this team needs.
Responsibilities
- Embed within product teams to enhance operational maturity
- Conduct regular game day exercises to improve incident preparedness
- Dive into Haskell and TypeScript code to apply reliability techniques
- Define and steer service-level objectives (SLOs) linked to customer outcomes
- Review design documents and code for reliability best practices
- Identify and address observability gaps impacting incident response
- Support the on-call rotation to refine processes and learning from incidents
Qualifications
- 5-7 years of Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps experience
- Proven track record of influencing reliability improvements in an organization
- Strong expertise with PostgreSQL
- Experience authoring and operating Temporal workflows
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Grafana or Honeycomb
- Knowledge of OpenTelemetry
Benefits
- Equity options
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Highly competitive salary ranges
- Flexible work environment encouraging autonomy
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
Skills mentioned
About Ladders
We lead the leaders. Ladder’s community of 10 mm leading professionals come to us to be inspired, grow in their careers, and get ahead in their professional lives. We focus on the $100K+ job market, representing 25% of all jobs and about 50% of income in the US & Canada. We build data-driven tools, marketplaces, news and entertainment products for our growing audience, and the companies, recruiters, and advertisers that want to reach them. We work best with people who enjoy using their talents, commitment and hard work to achieve great successes for millions of real life users through products that impact their careers. We are deeply technology-driven -- about half the company are engineers, technical product people or product designers -- but we never build technology for technology’s sake. We’re always trying to connect our efforts to the good it can do in people’s lives.
H-1B sponsorship history
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