Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Confluent Cloud Infrastructure

About the role

We need an expert-level engineer who can drive proactive reliability improvements that prevent these incidents before they occur. This role combines hands-on technical work with strategic program ownership. You'll spend roughly 75% of your time on engineering: building automation, improving tooling, analyzing systemic failure patterns, and designing reliability improvements.

What you'll do

• Proactive Reliability Engineering (~75% of role)
• Analyze systemic failure patterns and design improvements that prevent incident recurrence
• Define and maintain SLO/SLA frameworks; use error budgets to guide reliability investments
• Build tooling and automation to reduce incident response toil and scale team impact
• Own Rootly configuration, workflows, and integrations with PagerDuty, Jira, Confluence, and Slack

What you need

• AWS
• CI/CD
• Kubernetes
• GCP
• Azure
• Incident response
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Kafka
• Git
• JIRA
• Root cause analysis
• Clinical research
• Confluence