Underdog is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure

Underdog is hiring a founding Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Infrastructure to define and build reliability, scalability, and operational excellence from the ground up. This is a high-impact role with real ownership from day one, where you'll partner with platform, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure Underdog scales seamlessly through peak traffic and game-day spikes.

What You'll Do

• Own and maintain the incident response process, including defining procedures, tools, and best practices.
• Guide teams in establishing and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), including setting up alerts and reporting systems.
• Lead capacity planning initiatives, focusing on both short and long-term scalability while optimizing costs.
• Develop and implement disaster recovery plans, including regular testing and regulatory compliance.
• Collaborate with teams on architecture decisions to ensure high availability and scalability.
• Manage launch and event planning for high-traffic occasions, focusing on infrastructure preparation and capacity management.
• Act as an internal expert and consultant for monitoring tools like Datadog and Pagerduty and infrastructure like AWS and Kubernetes.
• Emphasize automation and tooling to scale our workload.
• Contribute across codebases in Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, Swift, and Kotlin as needed to support initiatives.

What We're Looking For

• A strong written and verbal communicator.
• Collaborative by nature.
• Someone who enjoys using research, data, and experiments to make decisions.
• You enjoy working directly with customers (generally engineers or other people inside the company).
• You think long-term about what is best for the business and its customers.
• You are excited to take ownership.
• You are very comfortable around an IDE, working with multiple languages, multiple web application frameworks, AWS services, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL.
• You can work independently to learn new languages/technologies as needed.
• You enjoy deploying changes to production quickly, multiple times a week if necessary.

Nice to Have

• Experience with PostgreSQL SQL query optimization, tweaking autovacuum settings, table statistics, different index types, etc.
• Experience with Redis / Valkey Optimization.
• Experience with Datadog or similar observability tools.
• Experience working as a web application developer, frontend or backend, especially in React and Ruby on Rails.
• Experience with AWS cost optimization.
• Read the Google SRE books or similar books, or have other forms of SRE training.
• Actively leveraging the capabilities of AI to augment abilities and gain knowledge about interested domains.

Technical Stack

• Languages: Ruby, Python, Go, TypeScript, Swift, Kotlin
• Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes
• Data & Observability: PostgreSQL, Datadog, Pagerduty, Redis, Valkey
• Frameworks: React, Ruby on Rails

Team & Environment

You will partner closely with platform, infrastructure, and product teams.

Benefits & Compensation

• Compensation: $160,000-$240,000 + pre-IPO equity.
• Unlimited PTO (extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NFL season).
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Home office stipend.
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce.
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents.

Work Mode

This is a fully remote position.

Underdog is an equal opportunity employer and doesn't discriminate on the basis of creed, race, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability status, or any other defining characteristic.