Sr Site Reliability Engineer

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will own reliability, scalability, and operability of SigNoz's cloud observability platform. You will design SLO/SLI frameworks, scale petabyte‑scale ingest pipelines, and automate infrastructure using Kubernetes and IaC. The role is fully remote within India and requires deep production‑grade SRE experience.

Role Snapshot

• Own cloud platform reliability
• Scale petabyte‑scale ingest pipelines
• Operate and tune ClickHouse
• Drive Kubernetes at scale
• Define SLO/SLI and incident response
• Build IaC and CI/CD tooling

Must-Have Requirements

• Kubernetes (deep fluency)
• Distributed systems failure analysis
• Capacity planning
• Incident management / SLO‑SLI
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code / CI‑CD
• SRE
• Kubernetes
• distributed systems
• capacity planning

Nice-to-Have Signals

• ClickHouse operation and tuning
• Go programming
• OpenTelemetry familiarity
• Kafka or similar high‑throughput data systems
• Open‑source contributions
• ClickHouse
• Go
• OpenTelemetry
• observability
• startup environment

Work Setup

• Location: India
• Work mode: REMOTE
• Remote scope: COUNTRY_RESTRICTED
• Remote countries: India
• Employment type: Full-Time

Not Specified in JD

• Salary range
• Visa sponsorship
• Travel requirement
• Security clearance
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Define and maintain SLOs/SLIs, error budgets, and on‑call practices
• Scale and harden the ingest path for burst traffic while keeping data fresh
• Plan capacity and enable auto‑scalability for a petabyte‑scale SaaS system
• Operate, upgrade, and automate Kubernetes clusters across multi‑tenant workloads
• Tune ClickHouse and the data layer for performance and cost efficiency
• Develop and maintain IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling
• Write clear runbooks, technical documentation, and communicate trade‑offs

Good Fit If You Have

• Experience on SRE teams at Series B+ startups
• Hands‑on work with Kafka or similar high‑throughput systems
• Contributions to open‑source projects
• Strong written communication for runbooks and docs
• Comfortable in a fast‑moving, remote‑first environment