Staff Site Reliability Engineer
About UsBluesky's mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We're building a federated social network called AT Protocol where users have more power. Our small team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications.
About the RoleWe're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help design, implement, and operate the infrastructure that powers Bluesky and atproto. This is a hands-on role for someone who has operated high-scale production systems, understands how distributed systems fail, and wants to build the operational foundation for an open social network.
Key Responsibilities
- You'll work across bare-metal systems, cloud services, data infrastructure, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability engineering for systems serving millions of users.
- Own reliability, availability, and operational excellence for our production systems, including observability, incident response, deployment, and rollback systems
- Improve production readiness for services, migrations, and infrastructure changes
- Develop software that pushes the state of the art in performance, automation, observability, and other areas
- Scale systems running on dense, latest-generation, bare-metal servers in our own colocation facilities
- Reduce toil through automation, tooling, and thoughtful engineering practices
- Partner with engineers across all our teams to help design services with strong operational characteristics
- Lead incident reviews and turn contributing factors into concrete engineering improvements as we practice continuous improvement
- Perform capacity planning and cost management across compute, storage, database, and networking workloads
- Manage various vendor relationships to ensure we can provide high quality services at a reasonable TCO
- Mentor engineers on reliability, operability, debugging, and distributed systems practices and help define a culture of operational excellence across the org
- Have +10 years experience operating high-scale production systems, including bare metal
- Have strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, storage, databases, and distributed systems
- Have built and operated high-scale systems where correctness, latency, throughput, and availability were critical
- Can write production-quality software in Go
- Are comfortable debugging across application code, operating systems, databases, networks, and hardware
- Have experience with observability systems, alert design, incident response, capacity planning, kubernetes, and production automation
- Like working on very small, fast-moving teams at a startup
- Have read the AT Protocol docs, feel aligned with the mission, and want to contribute!
Compensation
The base pay range for this role is $200,000 – $270,000 per year.10+ years operating high-scale production systems including bare metal; strong Linux, networking, storage, databases, distributed systems; production-quality Go; observability, incident response, capacity planning, Kubernetes; PST overlap; willingness to travel to team meetups quarterly.
Key Responsibilities
- operating production systems
- improving reliability
- mentoring engineers
Skills & Tools
Go, Kubernetes, Linux
Job Details
- Category: Software Development
- Seniority: Senior Level
- Commitment: Full Time
- Workplace: Remote — United States
- Salary: USD 200,000 – 270,000 / year
- Languages: English
About Bluesky
A company building a federated social network called AT Protocol to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. — Industry: Information Technology