Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Redwood , CA
At **Bellota Labs** , we are a fast-paced, hypergrowth startup poised to revolutionize the gaming world with **ClubWPT Gold** ---a groundbreaking product from the **World Poker Tour**. Driven by innovation, game integrity, and exceptional customer experiences, we are on a mission to set new standards in online gaming. We are seeking an experienced **Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)** to design, build, and maintain highly reliable, scalable, and secure systems. You will play a critical role in ensuring system availability, performance, and operational excellence across our infrastructure and applications. As a senior member of the team, you will also mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and drive best practices in reliability engineering, automation, and incident management. Key Responsibilities: - -------------------- * **Reliability \& Availability** * Design and implement highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems. * Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs. * Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems. * Improve system resiliency and reduce operational toil through automation. **Observability \& Monitoring** * Design monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies. * Implement tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar. * Establish proactive alerting and capacity planning processes. **Performance \& Scalability** * Conduct performance testing and optimization. * Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements. * Support system scaling initiatives and architecture reviews. **Collaboration \& Leadership** * Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability into development processes. * Lead reliability initiatives and cross-functional projects. * Mentor junior engineers and promote SRE best practices. Experience: - ---------- * 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering. * Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS). * Deep understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals. * Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). * Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Go, Bash, or similar). * Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog/Prometheus). Preferred Technologies (Nice to Have): - ------------------------------------- * Experience operating high-scale production systems. * Experience with microservices architecture. * Background in database reliability (Postgres, MySQL, Redis, etc.). * Experience implementing SRE practices (error budgets, blameless postmortems). * Experience with AI-driven SRE Lead High-Impact Projects -- Play a key role in delivering innovative gaming experiences to a global audience Collaborate Across Borders -- Work with talented teams across Asia and the US Fast-Paced Growth -- Be part of a hypergrowth startup with ambitious goals Competitive Benefits -- Enjoy a top-tier compensation package in a dynamic company
