North America Remote (Global) USD 140,000 - 180,000 Yearly

Customer.io is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer

About the Role

Customer.io is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help scale our infrastructure, reduce operational toil, and increase reliability as the company grows. You will work on high-scale systems and make our platforms better for both developers and customers.

What You'll Do

  • Build and scale infrastructure to support billions of messages per day and real-time events
  • Automate deployments, alerting, and incident response
  • Make on-call better - clear alerts, solid documentation, and faster resolution
  • Tune MySQL and other datastore performance and improve reliability across distributed systems
  • Collaborate across teams to debug, ship, and support systems in production
  • Share knowledge and raise the bar through sharing progress publicly with short videos, thoughtful writing, and mentorship
  • Leverage AI tools to prototype, move faster, and make better decisions

What We're Looking For

  • 7+ years in SRE or infrastructure roles, improving production systems at scale
  • Deep MySQL experience - schema design, performance tuning, and operational tooling
  • Fluency in cloud-native tech (GCP a plus) and Terraform
  • Proficiency in Go and Bash for scripting and systems programming
  • Skill in observability, incident response, and debugging distributed systems
  • A preference for action over perfection, and pride in owning technical decisions

Technical Stack

  • Go, React, Ember, MySQL, GCP, Terraform

Benefits & Compensation

  • $140,000 - $180,000 USD (or equivalent in local currency) depending on experience and subject to market rate adjustment
  • 100% coverage of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and supplemental insurance premiums for you and your family
  • 16 weeks paid parental leave
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Stipends for remote work and wellness
  • Professional development budget

Customer.io recognizes the stifling impact of systemic injustice on diverse communities. We commit to using our influence to increase inclusion and equity within the tech industry.

Required Skills
GoMySQLGCPTerraformBashSite Reliability EngineeringInfrastructureObservabilityIncident ResponseDebugging Distributed SystemsSchema DesignPerformance Tuning GoMySQLGCPTerraformBashSite Reliability EngineeringInfrastructureObservabilityIncident ResponseDebugging Distributed SystemsSchema DesignPerformance Tuning
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Customer.io
Customer.io powers automated communication that people actually want to receive. We help teams send smarter, more relevant messages using real-time behavioral data. Over 8,000 companies use our platform to send billions of emails, push notifications, in-app messages, and SMS every day.
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Job Details
Department Engineering
Category infrastructure
Posted 2 months ago