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Staff Site Reliability Engineer I

EMEA

About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
 
If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

As a Staff SRE at Remote, you will own the technical direction of our SRE platform, shaping its architecture, reliability strategy, and long-term evolution. This is a leadership role as much as a technical one: you'll drive platform-wide initiatives, set the reliability bar for engineering teams across the organisation, and be a force multiplier for the engineers around you.

A key part of this role is identifying and leading opportunities to leverage AI: from reducing operational toil to enabling engineering teams to build, ship, and operate software more effectively. You'll work with a high degree of autonomy, translating technical risks into business impact and aligning with Engineering Managers, Team Leads, and Product teams to ensure reliability and engineering efficiency are built into everything we do.

What you bring

Technical

  • 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes: operating, designing, and scaling production clusters
  • Proven experience designing and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS (or other cloud providers) at scale
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code practice with Terraform
  • Experience defining and operating reliability frameworks: SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, alerting strategies
  • Solid observability background: Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, or similar
  • Proficiency with CI/CD platforms (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar) and deployment automation
  • Comfortable with Bash and scripting for automation; broader programming skills are a plus
  • Experience with container tooling (Docker) and the broader ecosystem around it
  • Curiosity and practical experience applying AI tools to infrastructure, operations, or developer tooling: whether through AI-assisted automation, LLM-powered workflows, or intelligent observability

Leadership & behavioural

  • Proven track record of driving platform-wide technical initiatives and influencing engineering direction without formal authority
  • Strong communicator: able to tailor messaging to technical and non-technical audiences, write clearly, and align stakeholders across teams
  • Self-directed: able to identify what needs attention, define the path forward, and execute with minimal supervision
  • Experience mentoring senior engineers and creating space for others to lead and grow
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity, translating vague requirements into concrete solutions
  • Approaches technical problems with a business lens, understands the cost and value of engineering decisions

Nice to have

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • Holistic debugging skills
  • Security knowledge and capabilities from a defensive and offensive standpoint

 

Key Responsibilities

  • Own the technical direction of Remote's SRE/Platform domain, its architecture, tooling, and long-term roadmap
  • Define and drive the reliability strategy across the platform: SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, observability, and incident management maturity
  • Lead complex, cross-team infrastructure initiatives from discovery through delivery, delegating effectively and keeping projects aligned with business goals
  • Identify and lead AI enablement initiatives across the engineering organisation, exploring where AI can reduce operational overhead, accelerate development workflows, improve incident response, and unlock new capabilities for engineering teams
  • Drive AI-powered automation for platform operations: intelligent alerting, automated incident triage, self-healing infrastructure, and AI-assisted runbooks, reducing toil and freeing engineers to focus on higher-leverage work
  • Contribute to capacity planning and cost-efficiency of Remote's infrastructure
  • Mentor senior engineers, raising the technical bar through code reviews, design feedback, and hands-on guidance
  • Collaborate with the Security team on platform hardening, threat mitigation, and compliance
  • Be a steward of engineering quality across the SRE team, championing best practices, managing technical debt deliberately, and raising standards over time
  • Contribute to hiring, onboarding, and continuously improving how the SRE team operates

Practicals

  • You'll report to: Engineering Director
  • Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply
  • Start date: As soon as possible

Remote Compensation Philosophy

Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.

At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce.  We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.

The base salary range for this full-time position is $188,550 to $212,150. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.

At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.

Application process

  1. Interview with recruiter
  2. Interview with future manager
  3. Technical task
  4. Interview with team members (no managers present)
  5. Bar Raiser interview
  6. Prior employment verification check 

Benefits

Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
  • work from anywhere
  • flexible paid time off
  • flexible working hours (we are async)
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • mental health support services
  • stock options
  • learning budget
  • home office budget & IT equipment
  • budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces

How you’ll plan your day (and life)

We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.

You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.

If that sounds like something you want, apply now!

How to apply

  1. Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
  2. We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
  3. If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.

Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.

We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.

At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here. 

Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis. 

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  • Remote Europe Holding, B.V., a company registered in the Netherlands under number 7403597, at Kraijenhoffstraat 137A, 1018RG Amsterdam, The Netherlands; and
  • Remote Technology Services, Inc., a company registered in the United States of America under number 7988145 at 2261 Market St STE 86540 San Francisco, CA 94114;

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We'll review your public LinkedIn profile, and this may influence our decision to proceed with your application.

If your application is successful, the Controller will make an offer for employment which may be conditional on you passing a few additional checks, such as an ID verification check and employment history check. We conduct these checks via Veremark Ltd (United Kingdom) and Persona Identities, Inc. (USA). You will receive an additional notice if and when the Controller requires these checks.

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We collect the following categories of personal information:

  • Personal identifiers: Such as your name, email address, phone number, Linkedin profile, country and city, IP address.
  • Professional or Employment-Related Information: Such as your resume/CV, cover letter, work history, professional references, information about skills and abilities, accomplishments and awards, training and development information, performance evaluation information, previous employment information and employment termination information.
  • Work eligibility information: Such as work eligibility status, existence of a non-compete.
  • Other information: Job interview notes, transcripts, assessment results, evaluation related to your application and any other information you provide in connection with the recruitment process.
  • Education Information: Such as degrees, diplomas, certifications, and educational background.
  • Geolocation information: Such as IP addresses from which we can determine your general location.

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  • Protected characteristics: Such as sex, pronouns, disability status, race, gender identity through voluntary self-disclosure.
  • Physical or Biological information: If we use video interviewing tools, we may process your audio and visual information.
  • Precise geolocation: Derived from your IP address (if precise)

Remote does not sell or share any of the categories of personal information listed above.

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The information above is collected and used for the following purposes:

  • Recruiting and Hiring: To evaluate your qualifications for the position for which you applied and to communicate with you throughout the application process.
  • Inclusive Hiring: To ensure our hiring process is inclusive, complies with applicable law and regulations, and that people of all backgrounds are represented in our talent pool.
  • Verification: To verify your candidacy information, identity and legal right to work in respective country. Employment verification involves contacting past employers and may also include contacting listed references.
  • Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable law and regulations including state and federal laws, such as equal employment opportunity reporting requirements.
  • Security: To prevent and detect fraud and investigate security incidents.

Selling or Sharing of Personal Information

Remote does not "sell" or "share" (as those terms are defined by the CCPA) the personal information of job applicants to third parties. We only disclose specific pieces of information to service providers (e.g. Greenhouse) for the specific business purposes described above.

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We retain all categories of personal information for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfill the recruiting and hiring purpose for which it was collected but in any event for no longer than a year, or as required by applicable law.

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For more details on your rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act—including your Right to Know, Right to Delete, and Right to Correct—please visit our CCPA/CPRA Privacy Policy.

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In some instances, not only Remote may control the collection of your personal information as job applicant. For certain parts of the application process, the following third parties may control the collection of your data:

Successful Application Checks: If your application is successful, Remote will make an offer for employment which may be conditional on you passing additional checks.

ID and Employment Verification: These checks, including ID verification and employment history, are conducted via Veremark Ltd (United Kingdom) and Persona Identities, Inc. (USA).

Direct Collection: These third parties may control the collection of personal information directly from you to perform these specific verification services.

Additional Notice: You will receive an additional notice (Notice at collection) from the these third parties if and when Remote requires these specific checks.

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Remote is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and as such it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences.Through the below self-identification survey, we invite you to share your demographic information.

This information will be used to ensure that our hiring process is inclusive and that people of all backgrounds are represented in our talent pool.

All answers are anonymous and will not be tied to your job application or candidate profile.
The data will be aggregated and only used internally to inform our hiring strategies and processes to ensure we are actively working toward creating access to opportunities among under-represented groups and increasing our teams’ diversity. 

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These questions are optional and voluntary, and will not have any impact on hiring outcomes.

Visit the Remote Handbook to read more about how diversity, equity, and inclusion are a way of life at Remote.

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