Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Your Opportunity

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll help operate and improve the infrastructure that powers Flickr.

You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and platform reliability. You’ll partner closely with software engineers, product teams, and support teams to ensure Flickr remains reliable, scalable, and performant for photographers around the world.

Compensation: Awesome is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is $132,000- $190,300. This position is also remote-friendly, and as such, compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Various factors, such as defined competency leveling and geographic location, will determine the final compensation for this role.

Benefits: Health, dental, vision insurance with 100% premium coverage for you and dependents • Health Savings Account contributions covering 90%+ of annual deductible • 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting • Professional development and learning opportunities • Remote work support (internet, fitness, coworking space reimbursements) • Company-sponsored therapy and coaching sessions

In This Role, You Will:

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native systems running on AWS, including ECS, Lambda, and related services.
• Lead infrastructure and operational projects from concept through implementation and long-term ownership.
• Improve reliability, monitoring, alerting, deployment processes, and operational workflows across the Flickr platform.
• Participate in and help lead incident response efforts, including troubleshooting, coordination, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Build automation and tooling that reduces operational burden and improves system resilience.
• Partner with engineers across the company to improve platform performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and contribute to decisions that shape Flickr’s infrastructure and operational practices.

What You Bring:

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
• Strong experience building and operating production systems in AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform.
• Experience managing distributed systems and cloud-native architectures at scale.
• Deep understanding of monitoring, alerting, incident response, troubleshooting, and production operations.
• Experience improving operational processes through automation, tooling, and system design.
• Strong Linux, networking, and systems fundamentals.
• Ability to independently drive projects and solve complex technical problems.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability for production systems and operational outcomes.

Bonus Points For Experience With:

• Large-scale storage systems, media platforms, image processing, content delivery, or asset management systems.
• AWS services such as ECS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, Route53, and related technologies.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
• Operating systems that serve millions of users or manage large volumes of customer content.
• Experience working across modern and legacy production systems, including technologies such as PHP, Vespa, or similar platforms.
• Photography, creator tools, or products serving creative communities.

Beyond Technical Skills:

The engineers who thrive on this team are:

• Curious, pragmatic problem-solvers who enjoy understanding complex systems.
• Comfortable owning production systems and responding to incidents.
• Collaborative teammates who proactively drive improvements and share knowledge.