Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Observability

Bellevue, Washington; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DCOn-site 5d ago

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Position Overview:

We are seeking a highly technical Staff Observability Site Reliability Engineer with a specialty in Splunk to own and evolve our Splunk ecosystem. In this role, you will move beyond simple monitoring to delivering a world class, comprehensive, scalable Observability Platform that enables our SRE teams and business partners. You will treat infrastructure as code—utilizing Terraform and strong coding proficiency in Go, Python, or Ruby—to automate the deployment of agents and collectors across complex distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

Automated Infrastructure: Design, build, and maintain scalable observability infrastructure using tools like Terraform.
Splunk Engineering: Optimize the collection, processing, and storage of log data to ensure high reliability and low latency of our Splunk services
Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotations and lead post-incident reviews to drive systemic improvements and "observability-driven development."
Automation: Eliminate "toil" by automating the deployment and scaling of observability agents and collectors.

Required Skills & Experience (The Essentials)

Log Management: Minimum 5+ Experience scaling and managing Splunk Cloud at scale (1000+ SVCs), including Workload Management (WLM) and HEC optimization. Visualization: Expertise in creating intuitive, actionable Splunk dashboards that correlate data across multiple sources.
SRE Mindset: Minimum 5+ years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering role with a focus on high-availability systems.