Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Finalsite is the first community relationship management platform for K-12 schools, transforming how schools attract students, engage families, build community - and thrive. More than 7,000 schools and districts worldwide trust Finalsite’s integrated platform for their websites, communications, mobile apps, enrollment, and marketing services. Finalsite is headquartered in Glastonbury, CT, USA with employees who work remotely in nearly every state in the U.S. as well as Europe, South America, and Asia. For more information, please visit www.finalsite.com.
VISION
Finalsite will transform the way school communities engage with their schools.SUMMARY OF THE ROLE
The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will lead the evolution of Finalsite’s infrastructure, reliability, and observability practices across a multi-cloud environment. This role partners closely with engineering leadership to improve CI/CD, environment consistency, scalability, and operational excellence across critical platform initiatives.
LOCATION
100% Remote - Anywhere within the US
RESPONSIBILITIES
Design, improve, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
Establish reliable staging and development environments aligned with production standards
Build and manage observability practices, including monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and SLO frameworks
Partner with engineering teams to support platform modernization and infrastructure reliability
Drive Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) standards and multi-cloud operational consistency across AWS and GCP
Provide technical leadership on infrastructure architecture, reliability, and operational best practices
Support incident response, system reliability, and operational readiness initiatives
Utilize AI-assisted development tools to support infrastructure analysis and improvement efforts
QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS
Basic Qualifications
At least 10 years of experience as a Staff SRE or senior-level infrastructure engineer supporting production systems at scale
Strong expertise in AWS and GCP cloud platforms
Familiarity with queue-based or event-driven architectures and autoscaling technologies
Experience designing and improving CI/CD infrastructure and deployment automation
Hands-on Kubernetes operations experience, including scalability and workload reliability
Experience with observability tools, monitoring strategies, and incident management practices
Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or comparable technologies
Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering teams
Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or similar technologies
Preferred Qualifications
Experience supporting platform modernization or large-scale migration initiatives
Experience supporting multi-tenant SaaS environments
Background leading or advancing modern SRE practices within infrastructure teams
Familiarity with Ruby/Rails or Python deployment environments
Experience within EdTech, SaaS, or other highly available production environments
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT
Finalsite offers 100% fully remote employment opportunities, however, these opportunities are limited to permanent residents of the United States. Current residency, as well as continued residency, within the United States is required to obtain (and retain) employment with Finalsite.
DISCLOSURES
Finalsite is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact Finalsite's People Operations Team. Finalsite is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Finalsite will ensure that persons with disabilities or special needs are provided a reasonable accommodation. Ensure your Finalsite job offer is legitimate and don't fall victim to fraud. Ask your recruiter for a phone call or other type of verbal communication and ensure all email correspondence is from a finalsite.com email address. For added security, where possible, apply through our company website at finalsite.com/jobs.