Site Reliability Engineer

Knak Digital

Site Reliability Engineer

Brookfield, WI
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    About the Role

    This Site Reliability Engineer III role is a senior, hands-on position serving as the PostgreSQL subject-matter expert across a modern, cloud-native data platform. You’ll play a critical role in database architecture, performance, reliability, security, and observability, partnering closely with application, security, and platform teams.

    What You’ll Own

    You’ll partner directly with platform, architecture, and product engineering teams to:

    • Design services that don’t accumulate tech debt

    • Migrate legacy on-prem .NET systems to .NET 8 + AWS in a regulated, high-integrity environment

    • Build internal tooling and services in Rust for security, performance, and cost efficiency

    • Optimize PostgreSQL on AWS RDS (indexes, query plans, concurrency)

    • Own observability end-to-end with Datadog (instrumentation, tracing, custom metrics, SLOs)

    • Identify and eliminate operational toil at scale

    This is an ownership role. You build it, ship it, and stand behind it.

    Must Have

    • You started as a Software Engineer and transitioned into SRE / Production Engineering

    • 3–7+ years owning and shipping production services in C# (.NET 6/7/8)

    • Strong Python for tooling, automation, and pipelines

    • Real ownership of observability (Datadog experience is a plus — depth can be trained)

    • U.S. work authorization

    Strong Advantages

    • Real Rust experience (or strong systems language background in Go/C++)

    • Experience in fintech or regulated environments (Capital One, Chase, Goldman, Robinhood, etc.)

    • Deep PostgreSQL optimization experience

    • Prior work in HIPAA, PCI, or other regulated environments

     

    Benefits

     

    • Remote-first U.S. role with occasional in-person planning sessions

    • Entrepreneurial, collaborative team where individuals have real ownership and voice

    • Sustained growth with room to expand scope, skills, and career path

    • Strong investment in learning & development, including mentoring and training

    • Competitive compensation with geographic adjustments

    • Well-rounded benefits, including:

      • Medical, dental, and vision coverage

      • 401(k) with company match and profit sharing

      • Paid parental leave and family-building benefits

      • Generous PTO starting day one + paid holidays

      • Fully covered life, disability, and employee assistance programs