🚀 Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

Kharon is seeking a full-time Site Reliability Engineer based in Denver, Colorado. In office attendance is expected in this role.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Stand up and standardize metrics, logging, tracing, and alert hygiene; introduce golden dashboards and alert runbooks.
• Coach engineers on reliability practices, including leading incident response (MTTA/MTTR) running blameless postmortems, reliability reviews.
• Plan capacity, conduct load/perf tests, and drive performance tuning and cost–reliability tradeoffs.
• Collaborate with DevOps on Kubernetes/cloud/IaC standards, including creating paved roads and production-readiness checklists for app teams.
• Work cross functionally on resilient CI/CD (pre-deployment checks, canary/blue-green, automated rollbacks).
• Align with security on least privilege, secrets management, and audit-ready operational practices.
• Define RTO/RPO, backups, and failover drills; document and test recovery playbooks.
• Identify opportunities related to repetitive work and automations (scripts, jobs, runbooks, self-service tooling).
• Help shape on-call rotations, escalation policies, and handbooks, ultimately improving signal-to-noise and engineer well-being.
• Assist in defining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets with product/engineering, creating visibility into availability, latency, and quality.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering or DevOps, and at least 2+ years in a site reliability engineering (SRE) or reliability-focused role.
• Strong networking fundamentals including DNS, Kubernetes routing, load balancing, WAF, multi-VPC routing in AWS, Traefik.
• Solid software fundamentals (one or more of: Python, Java, Go, Scala or similar) and ability to read/modify production services.
• Deep experience in a major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Proficiency with IaC (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD systems, and git-based workflows.
• Hands-on with metrics/logging/tracing systems and alerting best practices.
• Proven incident commander experience and skillful facilitation of blameless postmortems.
• Solid grasp of networking, HTTP, load balancing, caching, and data stores (SQL/NoSQL/queues).
• Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-team influence.

Kharon is a highly disruptive and incredibly innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats + international commerce.

The base salary range at Kharon is set between $155,000 - $170,000. Please note that this figure does not necessarily include potential bonuses, commissions, benefits, or equity that may be part of the overall compensation package.

If interested in pursuing this position, please visit to apply.

Kharon is committed to cultivating and maintaining a workplace that is free from harassment and discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or identity, neurodiversity, appearances, age, protected veteran status, or status as a qualified individual with disability.