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Remote Site Reliability Engineer jobs

48 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Site reliability engineers keep production systems available, fast and recoverable by applying software engineering to operations problems. They are responsible for defining service level objectives, building monitoring and alerting, leading incident response and removing the manual work and failure modes that cause outages, usually in partnership with the product teams that own each service.

About the Site Reliability Engineer role

What the work looks like

  • Define service level indicators and objectives with product teams and track error budgets to decide when reliability work takes priority.
  • Build dashboards and alerts in tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog that page on user-facing symptoms rather than noise.
  • Take part in an on-call rotation, lead incident response and write blameless postmortems with concrete follow-up actions.
  • Automate deployments, failovers and capacity changes with Terraform, Kubernetes operators and scripts in Go or Python.
  • Review designs and launch plans for new services to check capacity, dependencies, rollback paths and failure behavior.

What employers ask for

  • Linux, networking and distributed systems fundamentals
  • Kubernetes and container orchestration
  • Terraform or other infrastructure as code
  • Go or Python for automation
  • Observability with Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog
  • Incident command and postmortem practice

Doing this job remotely

The infrastructure is in the cloud and incidents are already run over chat and video, so the role suits remote work well. The defining constraint is on-call: rotations are planned around time zones, and employers often hire in specific regions to get follow-the-sun coverage. Pages outside working hours and reliable home connectivity come with the job.

Where it comes from and where it leads

Engineers arrive from backend software development or from systems administration and DevOps roles after picking up the other half of the skill set. Later steps include staff or principal SRE, platform engineering leadership and infrastructure architecture.