USA Automotive is hiring an SRE Sr Engineer/Specialist to be instrumental in developing, enhancing, and expanding our global monitoring and observability platform. You'll be at the intersection of SRE and Software Development, blending AI with software and systems engineering to ensure the uptime, scalability, and maintainability of our critical cloud services.
What You'll Do
- Write, configure, and deploy code that improves service reliability for existing or new systems, setting the standard for others in code quality.
- Provide actionable feedback and reviews for code and production changes.
- Drive the repair and optimization of complex systems, considering a wide range of contributing factors.
- Lead debugging, troubleshooting, and analysis of service architecture and design.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
- Write documentation including designs, system analysis, runbooks, and playbooks, while providing design feedback to upskill others.
- Implement and manage SRE monitoring applications using AI, Python, and Observability data.
- Develop tooling using Terraform and other IaC tools to ensure visibility and proactive issue detection.
- Work within GCP infrastructure, optimizing performance and cost while scaling resources to meet demand.
- Collaborate with development teams to enhance system reliability and performance.
- Develop and maintain AI-enhanced automated solutions for on-call monitoring, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in dev, test, and production environments.
- Participate in postmortem analysis and create preventative measures for future incidents.
- Implement and maintain security best practices across infrastructure, ensuring compliance and participating in security audits.
- Participate in capacity planning and forecasting efforts to ensure systems can handle future growth.
- Identify and address performance bottlenecks through profiling, analysis, and tuning.
- Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery plans and procedures.
- Contribute to internal knowledge bases and documentation.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years of experience as an SRE, DevOps Engineer, Software Engineer, or similar role.
- Strong experience with Python development and desired familiarity with Terraform Provider development.
- Proficient with monitoring and observability tools.
- Proficient with cloud services, with a strong preference for Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience.
- Solid programming skills in Python, with a good understanding of software development best practices.
- Experience with relational and document databases.
- Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Nice to Have
- Agentic AI and MCP development experience.
- Experience with Dynatrace SaaS.
Technical Stack
- Python
- Terraform
- Kubernetes
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Dynatrace SaaS
- AI and Observability tools
Benefits & Compensation
- Immediate medical, dental, and prescription drug coverage.
- Flexible family care, parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, and subsidized back-up child care.
- Vehicle discount program for employees and family members, and management leases.
- Tuition assistance.
- Established and active employee resource groups.
- Paid time off for individual and team community service.
- A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
- Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.
USA Automotive is passionate about using IT expertise and analytical skills to shape the future of transportation. We are an equal opportunity employer.
