Senior Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in Seattle, WA

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Level: Senior IC (7-8 Years Experience)
Location: Redmond, WA
Job Requisition: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Azure Platform Engineering

Role Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, automate, and operate mission-critical Azure-based production platforms. This role requires a strong combination of cloud architecture, software engineering, platform operations, automation, observability, and AI-driven engineering practices.

The ideal candidate is a smart, highly motivated engineer with 7-8 years of experience who has successfully taken cloud platforms from concept through production deployment and ongoing operations at enterprise scale.

Key Responsibilities

·         Design, build, deploy, and operate highly available, secure, and scalable Azure platforms.

·         Architect production-grade cloud solutions leveraging Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), App Services, Azure SQL, Azure Batch, Azure Storage, and Azure Data Explorer (Kusto).

·         Create end-to-end system architecture, deployment topology, application flow, and network diagrams.

·         Own platform reliability, scalability, security, disaster recovery, and operational excellence.

·         Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Bicep and automate platform provisioning.

·         Implement comprehensive observability solutions covering monitoring, logging, distributed tracing, alerting, dashboards, and incident response.

·         Drive platform engineering best practices including CI/CD, GitOps, automated testing, release management, and operational readiness.

·         Develop production-quality tools, services, and automation using C#, PowerShell, and Bicep.

·         Partner with development teams to improve platform reliability, performance, security, and developer productivity.

·         Leverage AI-assisted engineering practices to accelerate solution development from rapid proof-of-concepts to enterprise-scale production deployments.

Azure Platform Expertise

Strong hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating:

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS/ACA)
• Azure App Services / Web Apps
• Azure SQL Database
• Azure Data Explorer (Kusto)
• Azure Batch
• Azure Storage Services
• Azure Networking
• Azure Entra ID
• Azure Monitor & Log Analytics

Infrastructure & Architecture

·         End-to-end system design

·         Distributed systems architecture

·         High availability and disaster recovery

·         Network design and connectivity patterns

·         Application and data flow modeling

·         Production readiness reviews

Infrastructure as Code

·         Expert-level Bicep experience

·         ARM templates (preferred)

·         GitOps principles

Observability

·         Azure Monitor

·         Application Insights

·         Log Analytics

·         Kusto Query Language (KQL)

·         Distributed tracing

·         Incident detection and response

·         Reliability engineering metrics

Software Engineering

Ability to write production-ready code in:

• C# or PowerShell
• Bicep

Experience with:

• APIs and microservices
• CI/CD pipelines
• Source control best practices
• Automated testing

AI-Native Expectations

The successful candidate must be a native AI adopter who routinely leverages:

• GitHub Copilot
• Azure AI services
• Agent-based workflows
• AI-assisted code generation
• AI-powered operational analysis

Must demonstrate the ability to:

·         Rapidly develop POCs using AI tooling.

·         Mature POCs into secure, scalable production services.

·         Use AI to improve engineering productivity and operational efficiency.

Preferred Qualifications

·         Experience supporting Tier-0 or Tier-1 business-critical services.

·         Experience with SRE practices including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident management.

·         Exposure to enterprise platform engineering organizations.

·         Experience leading technical execution across multiple engineering teams.

Success Profile

We are looking for a high-energy engineer who can:

• Think architecturally.
• Build pragmatically.
• Automate relentlessly.
• Operate confidently in production.
• Use AI effectively to accelerate outcomes.