Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)
Optimal DynamicsNew York, New York, United States
Posted September 4, 2025
180000 - 220000 USD year
Full Time
About the Company
Built on over four decades of pioneering research at Princeton University, our platform represents the leading edge of innovation in freight and transportation planning.
Job Description
We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability to lead reliability across our production platform. As a Staff‐level Individual contributor, you will drive strategy and hands‐on execution across incident response, SLO/SLI programs, and production readiness, directly owning highly available services in AWS.
Requirements
- Own the company‐wide incident lifecycle
- Define and drive SLIs/SLOs for core services
- Lead production readiness reviews, capacity/performance planning, load testing, disaster recovery exercises, and resilience engineering
- Embed security into the delivery pipeline
- Partner with Engineering leadership to maintain SOC 2‐aligned controls as code
- Drive secure‐by‐default patterns in the platform
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including Series C level equity
- Health / Dental / Vision 100% covered for employee and 50% for dependents
- Life Insurance, with optional supplemental insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- 401(k) with match
- Unlimited PTO (vacation, personal days, sick days, jury duty, military leave, bereavement)
- 11 Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave for all employees
- Short-term and Long-term Disability Insurances, and AD&D Insurance
- Fitness membership reimbursement
- Commuter benefits
