Site Reliability Engineer
Austin, TX
DevOps /
Fulltime /
Remote
At LeoTech, we are passionate about building software that solves real-world problems in the Public Safety sector. Our software has been used to help the fight against continuing criminal enterprises, drug trafficking organizations, identifying financial fraud, disrupting sex and human trafficking rings and focusing on mental health matters to name a few.
Role
We are looking for a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our distributed team. This is a fully remote, work-from-home opportunity.
As a key member of our DevOps team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining mission-critical monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems. Your work will ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of our infrastructure, supporting scalable services in production environments.
You will partner closely with engineering teams throughout the full development lifecycle, contributing to planning, design, deployment, and reliability goals.
What We Value
- Strong engineering background in fields such as Computer Science, Software Engineering and Mathematics.
- At least 6+ years of devops or site reliability experience.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and modern infrastructure design patterns.
- Adept experience authoring infrastructure as code using Terraform and/or Ansible.
- Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK stack, or equivalents.
- A deep understanding of public cloud infrastructure.
- Proficiency with programming languages such as Python, Go, or similar languages.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch and KV stores.
- Skill and comfort working in a fast-paced environment with dynamic objectives and quick iterations.
- Demonstrated ability to learn continuously, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.
Technologies We Use
- Primarily hosted on AWS Cloud with some infrastructure in Azure.
- An extensive monitoring and alerting footprint in Grafana Cloud.
- Our backend services are primarily dockerized, deployed in Kubernetes, and managed by ArgoCD.
- Our backend languages primarily consist of Elixir, NodeJS, and Python.
- TypeScript and React are central to our front-end development.
- Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible are leveraged for our Infrastructure deployment and automation.
- Industry-standard build tooling and CI/CD using GitHub Actions.
- A mix of open-source and proprietary technologies that are tailored to the problems at hand.
What You Can Expect
- What You Can Expect
- Enjoy great team camaraderie whether at our Irvine office or working remotely.
- Thrive on the fast pace and challenging problems to solve.
- Modern technologies and tools.
- Continuous learning environment.
- Opportunity to communicate and work with people of all technical levels in a team environment.
- Grow as you are given feedback and incorporate it into your work.
- Be part of a self-managing team that enjoys support and direction when required.
- 3 weeks of paid vacation – out the gate!!
- Competitive Salary.
- Generous medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Sick, and paid holidays are offered.
- Stand/ sit workstations.
- Kitchen stocked with snacks and drinks on site.
- Work with talented and collaborative co-workers.
- Casual environment.
$140,000 - $175,000 a year
Please note the national salary range listed in the job posting reflects the new hire salary range across levels and U.S. locations that would be applicable to the position. The final salary will be commensurate with the candidate's accepted hiring level and work location. Also, this range represents base salary only and does not include equity, or benefits if applicable.
LeoTech is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected status.
