Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

This role offers the opportunity to contribute to one of the most widely used knowledge platforms in the world by ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of its global infrastructure. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will help maintain and evolve large-scale systems that support millions of daily users across the globe. You will work in a fully remote, globally distributed engineering environment that values transparency, open-source collaboration, and continuous learning.

What You Will Do

Perform day-to-day operations and DevOps responsibilities across large-scale public-facing infrastructure, including deployment, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design scalable architectures and ensure systems operate reliably under global traffic loads.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This position combines hands-on operational excellence with architectural influence, allowing you to shape how critical services are deployed and maintained at scale. You will contribute to incident response practices, automation initiatives, and long-term infrastructure improvements that directly support a global mission of open knowledge.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure operations roles within complex distributed systems
• Strong proficiency in Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Go, or Ruby for automation and operational tooling
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, caching technologies, and system optimization techniques
• Experience with Linux package management (e.g., Debian-based systems)
• Proven track record of automating operational processes and identifying opportunities for system improvement
• Experience participating in incident response, postmortems, and reliability engineering practices
• Strong communication skills in English, with the ability to work effectively in a fully remote, globally distributed team
• Ability to work independently while collaborating across multiple time zones and teams

Benefits

• Fully remote position with global collaboration across multiple time zones
• Opportunity to contribute to one of the world’s most visited and impactful knowledge platforms
• Competitive compensation aligned with location, experience, and market standards
• Strong culture of open-source collaboration, transparency, and knowledge sharing
• High-impact role influencing the reliability and scalability of global infrastructure systems
• Exposure to large-scale distributed systems and modern SRE practices
• Supportive, mission-driven environment focused on free and open knowledge
• Opportunities for continuous learning, technical growth, and participation in global engineering initiatives
• Inclusive workplace committed to diversity, equity, and accessibility