Sonar
Site Reliability Engineering Lead
Austin, Texas · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of software engineering experience; significant focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
About the job
Leads a team of cloud and site reliability engineers responsible for operating and improving Sonar’s production platform, with a focus on reliability, security, performance, and cost optimization.
What you'll do
- Lead, mentor, and recruit engineers while setting high standards for reliability, performance, and security.
- Manage operational workload, including on-call health, incident response, and automation to reduce manual toil.
- Align platform operations with engineering needs and roadmap priorities, including resiliency, business continuity, governance, and cost optimization.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant focus on Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Deep understanding of DevOps/SRE practices and experience managing mission-critical shared services.
- Advanced knowledge of AWS or similar cloud providers and organizational-scale infrastructure.
- Experience with infrastructure coding and code reviews, observability patterns, disaster recovery/business continuity, Agile methodologies, and cloud cost optimization.
Tools
AWS, Aurora DBs, OpenSearch, Python, CDK, Terraform
Model-written summary · the original posting is authoritative