Hybrid Senior Site Reliability Engineer, SRE

at Yapp

• Job title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer, SRE
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: High School Diploma
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Cassandra, Cloud, Docker, EC2, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Redis, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

About the role

• Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Getrak responsible for platform reliability and monitoring in critical environments. Collaborating with engineering teams on performance and observability across a major SaaS platform.

Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and monitor SLIs/SLOs for availability, latency, and reliability.
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for microservices in high-availability environments.
• Manage and evolve infrastructure on AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, RDS, CloudFront, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Manage distributed databases and critical systems: Astra DB / Cassandra (DataStax), Redis, and RabbitMQ.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and scalability with Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Develop and maintain observability practices (metrics, logs, tracing) using DataDog and related tools.
• Lead investigations into critical incidents, proposing definitive solutions (blameless postmortems).
• Work on cloud cost optimization, balancing reliability and budget.
• Ensure infrastructure security and compliance, with access policies, backups, and continuous auditing.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams, bringing a reliability mindset to the development cycle.

Requirements

• 6+ years of SRE/DevOps experience in high-scale, mission-critical environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS and cloud-native architecture.
• Advanced knowledge of Cassandra (Astra DB / DataStax), Redis, and RabbitMQ.
• Experience with microservices and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS/EKS).
• Strong automation experience (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
• Experience with observability and DataDog (metrics, logs, and tracing).
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and protocols.
• Experience with incident response and resolving complex problems.
• Experience working in agile environments with a DevOps/SRE culture.
• Nice to have: Experience in high-volume B2B SaaS environments.
• Relevant certifications (AWS, Kubernetes, DevOps, SRE).
• Specialized knowledge of GitHub Actions.
• Experience with serverless architectures (AWS Lambda) and event-driven systems.
• Track record in migration and optimization of distributed databases and cloud infrastructure.

Benefits

• Remote work
• Flexible working hours