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We're building a federated social network called AT Protocol where users have more power. Our small team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications.\nAbout the Role\nWe're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help design, implement, and operate the infrastructure that powers Bluesky and atproto. This is a hands-on role for someone who has operated high-scale production systems, understands how distributed systems fail, and wants to build the operational foundation for an open social network.\nKey Responsibilities\nYou'll work across bare-metal systems, cloud services, data infrastructure, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability engineering for systems serving millions of users.\nOwn reliability, availability, and operational excellence for our production systems, including observability, incident response, deployment, and rollback systems\nImprove production readiness for services, migrations, and infrastructure changes\nDevelop software that pushes the state of the art in performance, automation, observability, and other areas\nScale systems running on dense, latest-generation, bare-metal servers in our own colocation facilities\nReduce toil through automation, tooling, and thoughtful engineering practices\nPartner with engineers across all our teams to help design services with strong operational characteristics\nLead incident reviews and turn contributing factors into concrete engineering improvements as we practice continuous improvement\nPerform capacity planning and cost management across compute, storage, database, and networking workloads\nManage various vendor relationships to ensure we can provide high quality services at a reasonable TCO\nMentor engineers on reliability, operability, debugging, and distributed systems practices and help define a culture of operational excellence across the org\nYou might be a good fit if you\nHave +10 years experience operating high-scale production systems, including bare metal\nHave strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, storage, databases, and distributed systems\nHave built and operated high-scale systems where correctness, latency, throughput, and availability were critical\nCan write production-quality software in Go\nAre comfortable debugging across application code, operating systems, databases, networks, and hardware\nHave experience with observability systems, alert design, incident response, capacity planning, kubernetes, and production automation\nLike working on very small, fast-moving teams at a startup\nHave read the AT Protocol docs, feel aligned with the mission, and want to contribute!\nWe're a fully remote team, but an overlap of working hours with PST is required, as is willingness to travel to team meetups once every 3-4 months. 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