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Reliability Engineer (SRE) In this role, you’ll take ownership of scaling, securing, and optimizing the infrastructure that powers thousands of online course creators around the world.

In this role, you will improve the performance, reliability, and security of our platform by partnering with cross-functional teams, driving SRE best practices, and ensuring operational excellence. As a senior member of the team, you’ll mentor others, lead key reliability initiatives and be a hands-on contributor in infrastructure projects, and act as a domain expert in up-to-date cloud-native practices, with a specific emphasis on Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure (AWS), observability, and service reliability.

Your goal will be to help guide and execute on projects related to your technical domain. Own and improve technical domains across our infrastructure, ensuring high standards of system reliability, performance, scalability, and security.

Design and implement scalable infrastructure using Kubernetes, AWS services (EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, ALB, etc.), Enhance and maintain deployment pipelines, enabling teams to release with speed, confidence, and security.

Automate operational tasks and improve developer experience with scripts and tools written in Ruby, Python, Node.js, or Bash.

Maintain observability using tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, and Sentry—ensuring monitoring and alerting align with meaningful SLOs.

Support and optimize distributed systems including relational and non-relational databases, message queues, and asynchronous architectures.

Mentor and coach other engineers, helping raise the technical bar and foster a culture of collaboration and operational excellence.

Participate in on-call rotation to help maintain a high level of service reliability.





Has 5+ years of software or infrastructure engineering experience, with 3+ years in Site Reliability or DevOps-focused roles

Has strong experience operating Kubernetes in production environments

Proven AWS experience with infrastructure and services such as EKS, RDS, S3, IAM, and ALB

Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Helm) and automation tools.

Strong scripting/coding ability in Ruby, Python, Node.js, or Bash

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

Solid understanding of networking, TLS, encryption protocols, and distributed systems.

Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and secure software supply chains

Familiarity with Cloudflare, CDN configuration, and load balancing strategies.

Enjoys collaborating across teams and helping shape engineering roadmaps and architectural direction

These things would also be nice, but we think you could learn them on the job:

Experience working with Ruby on Rails and/or Node.js applications in production

Familiarity with Cloudflare, load balancing strategies, and CDN configuration

Experience improving CI/CD pipelines and secure software supply chains

Salaries above the midpoint are typically reserved for team members who have demonstrated strong, consistent performance, deep expertise, and a significant positive impact within the role.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging & Accessibility

We believe in equal opportunity and are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging across every facet of our business.

Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Full-time

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📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote) (Edmonton)
🏢 Thinkific
📍 Edmonton