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We'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.
Job Responsibility
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
Requirements
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!