Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Coalition is an Active Insurance provider that combines insurance coverage with cybersecurity tools to help businesses manage and mitigate digital risk. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will build and operate infrastructure, tools, and platform capabilities that enable developers to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable software, while improving automation, observability, CI/CD, and system resilience.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and scale production environments using AWS and Terraform, driving architectural decisions that improve long-term maintainability and reliability
• Lead efforts to improve platform resilience through failure-based testing, automated recovery strategies, and proactive capacity planning
• Own the design and delivery of reusable platform components and self-service tools that streamline the developer experience and reduce cross-team toil
• Define and evolve observability standards across the platform, including system metrics, distributed tracing, and SLO frameworks
• Own projects end to end—from initial scoping and effort estimation through detailed planning, execution, and successful rollout
• Mentor engineers across the team, uphold high infrastructure quality, and actively shape the best practices and standards used by the organization
• Engage in technical design discussions, providing guidance and feedback while adapting strategies based on team input and evolving requirements
• Participate in a low-volume on-call rotation

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, or Software Development roles
• Hands-on experience operating production environments in AWS
• Proficiency in Go or Python, with experience building production-grade automation, tooling or libraries
• Strong experience with Terraform
• Experience with container orchestration platforms like ECS or Kubernetes
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
• Experience designing and implementing re-usable platform components based on team requirements
• Solid understanding of observability practices including system metrics, distributed tracing, and SLOs
• Exposure to failure-based testing approaches and automated recovery strategies
• Strong leadership and communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience evangelizing reliability best practices
• Experience with microservices architectures
• Exposure to Kafka or other event streaming systems
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure
• Familiarity with systems security, compliance requirements, or hardening practices