Senior Site Reliability Engineer wanted: take full ownership of the AWS infrastructure, CI/CD, and data systems behind an established consumer app

We’re hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join an established consumer app company with a small engineering team. The focus is the AWS platform behind the app: Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, and the PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch systems the product depends on. The work covers reliability, security, and infrastructure cost, in close collaboration with backend engineers, as the company builds its first user-facing AI feature.
A seasoned Site Reliability Engineer who takes genuine ownership of production infrastructure and treats its reliability, security and cost as their own responsibility
An engineer who approaches infrastructure as software, favouring durable automation and well-designed systems over manual intervention
A clear, candid communicator who shares feedback openly, assumes positive intent and builds trust with colleagues across engineering and the business
An enthusiastic adopter of AI-assisted engineering who uses it to work faster and automate routine tasks, while remaining accountable for security, correctness and production outcomes
Location: Remote (British Columbia)
Own the company’s AWS infrastructure end to end, continuously improving its reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency
Evolve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation and developer workflows so engineers can ship changes safely and efficiently
Strengthen observability, alerting and incident response, leading investigations into production issues and driving improvements that prevent recurrence
Plan for capacity, failure and recovery,



building production readiness into every system while steadily reducing operational toil
Operate and modernize shared data infrastructure, including PostgreSQL on RDS, Redis and Elasticsearch, covering backups, replication, migrations and performance tuning
Provide clear visibility into AWS and engineering tooling spend, identify optimization opportunities, and partner with business stakeholders on budgeting, forecasting, and infrastructure investment
Drive infrastructure security priorities alongside a senior external security advisor, translating risks and recommendations into concrete, prioritized work
Collaborate with backend engineers on system architecture and operational simplicity, contributing directly to backend services when that is the most effective solution

⭐ 7+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, DevOps or infrastructure engineering, including ownership of production cloud environments

- Deep hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, and distributed systems, with a solid grounding in production operations
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling and incident response processes
- A track record of designing systems for failure and recovery, including capacity planning and production readiness
- Experience operating production databases and shared data infrastructure such as PostgreSQL,



Redis and Elasticsearch
- Robust programming skills in Python, Go or a comparable language
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure costs and making informed trade-offs between cost, performance and reliability
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions clearly to both engineers and business stakeholders

Visible Impact: In a small engineering team, decisions move quickly, and every improvement to reliability, deployment or cost is felt across the company
AI-Forward Engineering: Access to enterprise AI tools, with active encouragement to use them to automate routine work and improve how infrastructure is built and run
Sustainable Pace: An established company with a steady working rhythm and flexible hours, rather than the pressure of a hypergrowth startup

Paid Time Off: Competitive vacation and personal days to maintain a healthy work-life balance
Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits, fully paid by the company, to support your overall well-being
Employer RRSP matching contributions, supporting your long-term financial security
Performance Bonus: Profit-sharing bonus recognizing the company’s business performance

Ready to Own Production Infrastructure End to End? At STACK IT Recruitment, we connect top talent with standout opportunities. If you meet at least 70% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply — we’d love to chat!

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📌 Senior Site Reliability Engineer-Remote (Canada)
🏢 STACK IT Recruitment
📍 Canada