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Who We’re Looking ForThe Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team’s centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes.LocationWhile we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, ILKey ResponsibilitiesWhat You’ll AccomplishOwning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rolloutLearning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and toolsMaintaining organization cloud presence in AWSAutomating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areasAssisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readinessWriting documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge baseImplementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability toolsWorking in a containerized, orchestrated environmentParticipating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issuesContributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflowsContributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safetyWhat You’ll ContributeRequired (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack):Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)CI/CD (GitHub Actions)Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests)AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3)FinOps and cloud cost optimizationObservability (Datadog, Sentry)Agentic AI (Claude Code)Scripting (Shell, Python)Track record of collaboration and mentorshipExcellent written communication and documentation skillsContinuous learningOwnership and proactive approach to solving large problemsPreferred:Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC)FlinkRelational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS)Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance)Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI)GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation)REST APIGitOps (ArgoCD)Hashicorp VaultRedisMemcachedEducation & Experience:A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience.5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles.What We ProvideCompetitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program401(k) with employer match100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure18 weeks paid leave for birth moms8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoptionMonthly wellness allowanceAnnual professional and personal development allowanceWork from home office set-up and expense allowances Flexible work location opportunities Employer matching toward charitable contributionsAbout Discogs Discogs is the largest crowd-sourced, community-driven database of recorded music information in the world. Every day, millions of people use the Discogs Marketplace to connect, learn about music, and buy and sell vinyl records, CDs, and cassettes. As Discogs continues to grow, we are looking for bright, dedicated, creative, and highly motivated people to help us realize our mission to serve the music fan in everyone. We are relatively small, so individual contributions can have a large impact. High value is placed on quality, critical thinking, and continuous improvement. Our teams work collaboratively but are distributed geographically and open-source tools are important to who we are and how we work. We value the experiences and skills each team member contributes to helping us serve our music community.Discogs’ mission is to serve the music fan in everyone. We represent a diverse and inclusive community, and we are committed to serving our community with innovative and creative solutions. We know that innovation happens best when varying perspectives are embraced and integrated. Our global team reflects our global community.Discogs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.