Site Reliability Engineer (Remote)

About the role

Orkes builds a platform for reliable, scalable, event-driven applications, absorbing the complexity of distributed systems so teams can focus on building. It is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to help evolve and scale the platform. The role is full-time and remote, based in Australia, EMEA, reporting to the Head of Engineering, with 15-20% travel.

Key responsibilities

• Own the reliability, availability and performance of production systems running in the cloud
• Define and monitor SLIs/SLOs and manage error budgets
• Lead incident response, including detection, triage, mitigation and postmortems
• Improve observability through logging, monitoring, alerting and dashboards
• Automate operational workflows and reduce manual toil
• Partner with engineering teams to improve resiliency and scalability
• Assist with capacity planning, infrastructure optimization and performance tuning
• Build internal tooling, runbooks and operational best practices
• Support Kubernetes-based infrastructure and act as escalation point for complex production issues

Required profile

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering or related infrastructure roles
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture
• CI/CD pipeline management and deployment automation experience
• Cross-functional collaboration and effective communication under pressure

Required skills

• Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK or OpenTelemetry
• Infrastructure automation and scripting (Terraform, Python, Bash)
• Nice to have: workflow orchestration (Conductor, Temporal, Camunda), Kafka or event-driven architectures, security hardening, open-source contributions

What we offer

• Base salary of $125,000-250,000 USD, depending on skills, experience, scope, location and market data
• Health coverage including medical, dental and vision
• Flexible PTO and support for personal development
• Remote-friendly culture with strong engineering autonomy