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Lead Site Reliability Engineer (Performance & Scalability) | Contract | Remote US

14 hours, 8 minutes ago
United States
Contract
Lead
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
DevOps and Infrastructure
CI/CD
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Tech Holding

Tech Holding

Tech Holding: California's #1 website design company offering full-service technology consulting with expertise in software management, AI, and security.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2016
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Description

  • Establish performance, throughput, latency, and capacity baselines for critical platform workflows.
  • Define and maintain SLOs, error budgets, performance budgets, dashboards, alerts, and reliability thresholds.
  • Instrument and analyze the full request path across services, infrastructure, databases, networking, caches, queues, DNS, and third-party dependencies.
  • Identify system bottlenecks and lead cross-functional remediation efforts with engineering teams.
  • Build capacity models that show current limits, emerging constraints, and the cost of additional scale.
  • Lead load, stress, soak, spike, failure, and recovery testing in representative environments.
  • Develop realistic demand scenarios for major customers, partnerships, pilots, and high-volume events.
  • Drive architecture hardening, graceful degradation, dependency-failure planning, and resilience improvements.
  • Partner with Test Automation and Scalability Engineering on automated performance testing, regression coverage, and production release gates.
  • Own technical readiness assessments for major pilots, partnerships, and production launches.
  • Create operational runbooks for scale-up events, incidents, rollback, recovery, and dependency failures.
  • Lead performance and reliability investigations during incidents and incorporate lessons into future engineering work.
  • Communicate infrastructure cost, performance, and reliability tradeoffs to engineering and executive leadership.
  • Recommend capacity and reliability investments before they become production constraints.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, performance engineering, platform engineering, distributed systems, or a closely related discipline.
  • Experience supporting production systems with meaningful scale, traffic, latency, or availability requirements.
  • Deep understanding of observability, performance analysis, capacity planning, and reliability engineering.
  • Strong hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and production distributed systems.
  • Deep knowledge of databases, networking, caching, queueing, compute, storage, and common distributed-system failure modes.
  • Experience defining and operating against SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and production reliability metrics.
  • Hands-on experience performing load, stress, soak, scalability, and resilience testing.
  • Ability to profile systems, diagnose bottlenecks, tune architecture, and work directly with engineering teams to implement improvements.
  • Experience designing for graceful degradation, dependency failures, recovery, and high-demand scenarios.
  • Strong incident management and root-cause analysis experience.
  • Ability to translate technical performance and reliability risks into clear business implications for senior leadership.
  • Strong judgment around when systems need optimization versus when added complexity is premature.
  • Experience operating high-scale SaaS, identity, DNS, registry, infrastructure, or other highly distributed platforms (preferred).
  • Experience creating capacity-cost models and forecasting infrastructure requirements (preferred).
  • Experience building performance and reliability gates into CI/CD pipelines (preferred).
  • Experience preparing platforms for major traffic increases from enterprise customers or strategic partnerships (preferred).
  • Experience leading reliability or performance initiatives across multiple engineering teams (preferred).
  • Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.; no visa sponsorship is available.

Benefits

  • Remote work opportunity (#LI-Remote).
  • Contract employment type.
  • Equal Opportunity Employer commitment.
  • Inclusive workplace across all backgrounds and experiences.

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