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Site Reliability Engineer II

Denver, CO, USA

About DAT

DAT Freight & Analytics is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of freight and logistics innovation for nearly five decades. Founded in 1978, DAT operates the largest freight marketplace in North America — processing 250 million+ load posts annually and maintaining one of the largest repositories of freight market transaction data in the world. On a defined path to $1 billion in revenue, DAT deploys a suite of software solutions, machine learning models, and intelligent automation tools that help brokers, carriers, and shippers price freight accurately, source capacity, reduce risk, and operate more efficiently. With nearly 700 teammates across offices in Denver, CO; Portland, OR; Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; Toronto, ON; and Bangalore, India, DAT combines the credibility of a multi-decade market leader with the drive of a company that is not done disrupting the industry it helped build. For more information, visit www.DAT.com

 

Job Application Deadline: 10/31/2026

 

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE platform team. This position will work hybrid in Denver, CO

Candidate profile

DAT is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help grow our SRE practices. In this role, you will be responsible for contributing to technical initiatives and enhancing your skills. You’ll work closely with development teams and platform architects to achieve critical reliability goals and help scale our platform.DAT is actively seeking a highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to play a pivotal role in the expansion and maturation of our SRE practices. In this critical position, the successful candidate will be instrumental in driving key technical initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and significantly enhancing their own professional expertise.

This role necessitates close collaboration with various stakeholders, including our dedicated development teams and platform architects. The primary objective of these partnerships is to collectively achieve ambitious reliability goals and strategically scale our platform to meet evolving growth of the company. The SRE will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of our systems, implementing robust monitoring solutions, automating operational tasks, and proactively identifying and resolving potential issues. This will involve a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and a commitment to best practices in site reliability engineering.

What You’ll Do

  • Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and reliable systems. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliability targets are met.
  • Identify and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
  • Advocate for and implement SRE best practices, including automation, monitoring, and incident response, to enhance system resilience.
  • Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning to proactively address potential bottlenecks and support future growth.
  • Leverage new AI tools to assist with coding and observability tasks.
  • Assist and respond to critical engineering incidents.
  • Improve your engineering skills within the SRE team.
  • Provide technical guidance and best practices for use of cloud infrastructure and tooling. Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code within the platform. We strive to automate all the things!
  • Contribute to reliability-focused initiatives and projects.
  • Help optimize our work to be customer-focused. Continually seek feedback from our customers on how we can improve.
  • Assist in migrating legacy systems to modern, scalable cloud environments.
  • Help develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement with the Platform Engineering and Software Engineering groups.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

  • Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities, especially within SRE or Platform Engineering/Infrastructure teams.
  • Total of 2 to 4+ years industry experience
  • At least 1 year of software engineering experience (JavaScript, Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, C++, etc)
  • Experience with modern observability tools (Datadog preferred).
  • Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
  • Demonstrated success in contributing to large technical initiatives and acting as a driving force to complete those initiatives.
  • Proven experience assisting in modernizing legacy code and infrastructure.
  • Ability to work closely with peer teams, platform/software architects and management to drive key reliability improvements.
  • Willingness to share your expertise among team members and others within the engineering organization. We value upleveling our peers however we can.
  • Understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and best practices for reliability.
  • Experience with our tools (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Github Actions) a plus.

 

Why DAT?
DAT is an award winning employer of choice.

For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We’ve been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado’s 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
  • Parental Leave
  • Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
  • An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
  • 401k matching (immediately vested)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Health Savings Accounts
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
  • Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
  • Collaborative and supportive team culture
  • Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
  • Employee Resource Groups

 

*This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**

For Colorado-based candidates, in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this role is $95,000.00 - $134,000.00 + target bonus. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

 

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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