Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Actively Reviewing the Applications

Salla

Saudi Arabia Full-Time On-site

Posted 3 weeks ago • Apply by April 21, 2026

Job Description

As a Senior SRE at Salla, you will lead reliability initiatives, handle complex incidents, improve platform performance, and guide engineering teams toward building resilient systems. You will also participate in the on-call rotation as part of our commitment to platform reliability.

Reliability & Incident Management

Lead high-severity incident response and drive post-incident reviews
Troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, and networks
Improve MTTR through better monitoring, alerts, and diagnostic tooling
Participate in the on-call rotation supporting production systems

Performance & Scalability

Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and scaling challenges
Conduct load testing and capacity planning for high-traffic scenarios

Infrastructure & Operations

Enhance cloud-native infrastructure, deployment processes, and automation
Improve resilience, fault-tolerance, and recovery mechanisms across systems

Observability

Build and refine dashboards, alerts, metrics, logs, and traces
Define SLIs/SLOs and improve visibility into system behavior

Tooling & Automation

Develop tools that reduce operational toil and increase reliability
Contribute to infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and GitOps workflows

Collaboration

Work closely with engineering teams to ensure services are robust and production-ready
Mentor engineers on reliability, debugging, and operational best practices

Bonus Skills

Background in large-scale, high-traffic systems
Experience with fault-tolerant design, DR, and HA patterns
Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

Location Preference

Candidates located within GMT 0 to +6 time zones are preferred to align with team collaboration and on-call coverage

Requirements

Strong experience with Kubernetes, service mesh technologies, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Deep understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and load balancing.
Hands-on experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Mimir, Elastic, or equivalent.
Proficiency in scripting or programming languages such as Bash, Python, or Go.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.
Strong debugging, incident response, and performance analysis skills