Lead Site Reliability Engineer

About The Opportunity

We’re seeking an experienced SRE to lead and collaborate with our growing team in Brazil. In this role, you will partner with product teams to tackle our most critical infrastructure challenges, acting as both a hands-on technical expert and a mentor.

You’ll be instrumental in designing, building, and operating our cloud platform—and driving the reliability, performance, and security that empower our engineering organization.

This is a hybrid setting opportunity in Mountain View.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide and support your fellow engineers, foster technical excellence through code reviews and design discussions, and help unblock the team on complex challenges.
• Documentation & Mentorship: Author and maintain runbooks, standards, and best-practice guides to elevate the team's operational capabilities.
• Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD: Automate provisioning and deployments with Terraform and integrate best-practice pipelines (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.).
• Reliability Engineering: Define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and build dashboards & alerts to proactively measure and improve system health.
• Security & Compliance: Enforce least-privilege IAM policies, automate vulnerability scans, and maintain audit logging for compliance.
• Monitoring & Observability: Instrument services with metrics, logs, and distributed tracing to enable rapid troubleshooting, aid teams in alerting, custom metrics, and dashboarding.
• Cost Optimization: Implement tagging strategies, right-size resources, and leverage concrete data to decide on optimal methods to control cloud spend at scale.

Required Qualifications

• Have strong experience running production critical systems, with a deep understanding of SRE and DevOps principles, patterns, and methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience mentoring other engineers, leading technical projects, or acting in a formal or informal team lead capacity.
• Deep proficiency with the AWS Cloud and Cloud-Native best practices.
• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS, GKE) and Container Orchestration at scale.
• Skilled in Terraform to declaratively provision and maintain infrastructure services.
• Working knowledge of managing and debugging databases like Redis and Postgres.
• Strong familiarity with VPC, VPN, Load Balancing, and cloud networking components.
• Proficiency with Git workflows, branching strategies, and CI/CD system integrations.
• Solid understanding of web and network protocols and standards (HTTP, REST, TLS, DNS, etc...)

Nice To Have Skills

• Bachelor's degree (Bacharelado, or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience breaking down large, ambiguous projects into smaller, actionable tasks for a team.
• Experience with ArgoCD, Github Actions, Jenkins, or other CI/CD pipeline solutions.
• Working knowledge of Python, Golang, and Helm templating languages.
• Node.js experience a plus, including running scalable, resilient Node microservices.
• Grasp of foundational security best practices for cloud infrastructure.
• Awareness of Terragrunt, managing Terraform state, and optimal project structure.
• Seasoned in production readiness fundamentals amidst a fast moving team.

Avenue Code discloses salary range information based on our commitment to fairness and transparency. We consider a wide range of factors such as internal equity, geographic location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, business or organizational needs, and others. At Avenue Code, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for a NAME POSITION is from $190.000,00 to $195.000,00 yearly.

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