Site Reliability Engineer

Dayforce is a global human capital management company headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to bridge the gap between Development and Operations teams, enabling faster feature delivery and improving service quality across their cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Learn and develop a deep understanding of Dayforce’s cloud infrastructure and application ecosystem
• Onboard new applications and features, ensuring successful completion of Production Readiness Reviews
• Contribute to projects that improve platform reliability, automate operational tasks, and enhance SRE processes
• Participate in incident response activities, root cause investigations, and remediation efforts
• Create and maintain runbooks and reusable operational components
• Contribute to the internal SRE repository and engineering best practices
• Build trusted relationships across Development, Operations, and broader business teams
• Participate in PagerDuty on-call rotations as required
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on scalability, performance, and service reliability

Requirements:

• U.S. based applicants must successfully pass a Dayforce background screening, USFedPASS (U.S. Federal Personnel Authorization Screening Standards), including a credit check, criminal/misdemeanor background check, and drug test
• Employment is contingent upon successfully passing the screening
• Due to federal requirements, only U.S. citizens, naturalized U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, or Green Card holders will be considered
• Candidates must also be eligible for U.S. security clearance
• 2–4 years of experience as an SRE, System Administrator, Network Engineer, Database Administrator, or Software Engineer
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
• Experience with at least one object-oriented programming language, preferably C#
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell
• Experience with at least one database platform and querying language such as MSSQL/TSQL or PostgreSQL/PLSQL
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced operational environments
• Understanding of operational excellence, automation, and reliability engineering concepts
• Experience with containerization technologies and Kubernetes
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform
• Experience automating operational workflows and remediation activities
• Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and observability best practices
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills in distributed cloud environments