Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Description

Who We’re Looking For

The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team’s centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes.

Location

While we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

Fixed Position Rate: $140,000

This role carries a single, non-negotiable Fixed Position Rate to ensure absolute equity and eliminate negotiation bias.

Key Responsibilities

What You’ll Accomplish

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout
• Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools
• Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS
• Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
• Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas
• Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness
• Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge base
• Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools
• Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment
• Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues
• Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows
• Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

What You’ll Contribute

Required (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack):

• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
• Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests)
• AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3)
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization
• Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
• Agentic AI (Claude Code)
• Scripting (Shell, Python)
• Track record of collaboration and mentorship
• Excellent written communication and documentation skills
• Continuous learning
• Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems

Preferred

• Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC)
• Flink
• Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS)
• Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance)
• Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI)
• GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation)
• REST API
• GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Hashicorp Vault
• Redis
• Memcached

Education & Experience:

• A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles.

Benefits

What We Provide

• Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
• 401(k) with employer match
• 100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
• 4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
• 18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
• 8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
• Monthly wellness allowance
• Annual professional and personal development allowance
• Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
• Flexible work location opportunities
• Employer matching toward charitable contributions

About Discogs

Discogs is the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use the Discogs Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As Discogs continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.

Discogs’ mission is to serve the music fan in everyone. We represent a diverse and inclusive community, and we are committed to serving our community with innovative and creative solutions. We know that innovation happens best when varying perspectives are embraced and integrated. Our global team reflects our global community.

Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants needing accommodation to apply should contact us at 503-597-6340

Discogs does not promote job openings through text messaging. If you receive a text message claiming to offer a position at our company, please disregard it as fraudulent. For a list of our actively open positions and to apply, please visit the official Careers page on our website: https://www.discogs.com/about/careers

If you apply for this role, you will be required to upload a resume, cover letter, and fill out a few questions regarding your application. Once submitted, our hiring team will review your application and contact you if you are selected for an interview. Whether you are successful or not, we will store your application and data in our system for a maximum period of one year from the application date in case another role becomes available that you are suitable for. If you have any questions or concerns about us storing this data and/or the period of time, please contact us at legal@discogsinc.com and we will respond to you within 30 days.