About the role

Senior Platform Engineer at Rootly building infrastructure for incident management and enhancing system reliability. Collaborate with product teams to drive performance and scalability of services in a high-impact environment.

Responsibilities

Embed with product teams to enhance observability, reliability, and performance of their services.
Own our CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, monitoring systems, and incident response processes.
Build tools and automation to eliminate manual toil, improve engineering velocity and developer experience, and improve system reliability.
Collaborate deeply across engineering to understand systems at the code level and surface cross-cutting reliability, performance, and scaling concerns early.
Architect and scale our infrastructure, ensuring best-in-class performance, availability, and operational excellence.
Drive capacity planning efforts to ensure our infrastructure is resilient and scalable as we grow.
Define and manage SLOs and error budgets in partnership with Engineering teams who own production services.
Act as a strong voice for reliability, performance, and scalability across the engineering organization.

5+ years of experience in an SRE, Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
5+ years of experience writing software in a production environment.
Strong technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, and reliability practices.
Strong understanding of observability, performance tuning, and scaling strategies.
Deep familiarity with incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD systems.
Hands-on experience supporting web or RPC services at meaningful scale.
You write code to solve infrastructure problems—not shell scripts alone, but production-grade software.

Competitive compensation and early equity in a fast-growing, venture-backed company.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
3 weeks of vacation, plus unlimited sick and mental health days, and a company-wide end-of-year shutdown to recharge.
$500 stipend for home office setup.
A fast-moving, high-impact environment where your leadership and ideas directly shape the future of the company.