Full-Time Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Abnormal is hiring a remote Full-Time Senior Site Reliability Engineer. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting USA based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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About the RoleAbnormal Security is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Infrastructure team. You will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our systems and services. You will lead initiatives to improve the operational maturity of both SRE-managed services and critical product systems, driving change across the organization in support of stable operations.
As a senior member, you will independently define and execute quarterly goals, create forward-looking roadmaps, and own cross-functional projects aligned with company-level objectives. You will serve as a key advocate for reliability, providing technical leadership, deep analysis, and mentorship while embedding with product teams as needed to improve service ownership and incident response practices.
The ideal candidate: Has strong technical depth in distributed systems and operational excellence. Possesses a product-focused mindset with the ability to translate business needs into reliability goals. Is a strong communicator and mentor, able to influence both within the SRE team and across engineering. Has demonstrated experience leading broad technical initiatives across teams and systems.
What You Will Do
- Own the operational maturity of services in the SRE software stack, driving architectural and tooling improvements
- Proactively partner with product teams to embed SRE best practices and support services with operational challenges
- Independently define and drive quarterly goals for the SRE team with measurable impact on system reliability and developer productivity
- Design and maintain systems that promote observability, automated recovery, scalability, and resilience
- Lead incident reviews and root cause analyses; ensure follow-up actions are implemented and shared across teams
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to shape the team roadmap and contribute to company-wide reliability goals
- Mentor other engineers and drive adoption of SRE principles throughout the engineering organization
Must Have
- 8+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering roles
- Deep knowledge of production-grade distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
- Demonstrated experience managing service availability, latency, and incident response in production environments
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- Proven ability to lead complex, multi-team initiatives and influence system design for reliability
Nice To Have
- Prior experience embedding with product engineering teams to support operational goals
- Familiarity with AWS and multi-cloud environments (e.g., Azure, GCP)
- Experience in regulated environments or with FedRAMP-compliant systems
- Contributions to open-source SRE tooling or community knowledge sharing