playonsports - PlayOn - Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Requirements
• Experience writing or maintaining end-to-end or integration tests for distributed systems. • Background in performance testing, capacity planning, or chaos engineering. • Contributions to internal developer tooling or reliability-focused frameworks. • Exposure to security, compliance, or change management processes in production environments. • Relevant certifications.
Responsibilities
• Contribute to system observability i.e implementing, improving metrics, alerting, and dashboards for better insight and faster recovery. • Develop automation, tooling, and monitoring solutions to support high service availability. • Partner with application and quality engineering teams to implement best practices in reliability, release automation, and testing. • Drive operational excellence through proactive incident prevention, blameless postmortems, and capacity planning. • Participate in on-call rotations to support critical services and ensure rapid response to incidents. • Solid experience in Python, especially for automation, tooling, and data-driven operational tasks. • Proficiency in at least one (Java, C++, or Go). • Strong understanding of Linux systems, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and modern deployment practices (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform). • Experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and automated testing frameworks. • Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.) and log/metric analysis for diagnosing issues. • Proven experience facilitating and documenting Critical User Journeys translating them to actionable SLA/SLO for automation. • Demonstrated ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate clearly in high-impact situations. • A problem-solver who approaches reliability as a shared responsibility across engineering. • Familiarity with AI-augmented development tools (Claude, Codex) as part of a modern engineering workflow.
Benefits
• Product, potential, and people. We’re a leader in the high school event space, constantly evolving our product to meet the needs of administrators. We focus on solving real challenges, learning quickly, and creating impactful solutions. • This is a growth-stage company, meaning your contributions have real impact. You’ll have opportunities to grow your skills, tackle meaningful problems, and make a difference in the lives of schools and the students and fans they serve. • Our culture is built on accountability, collaboration, growth, and fairness. We don’t just show up—we show up for each other. Everyone wears the same jersey, and we play hard, make the extra pass, and cheer one another on. Losses teach us, challenges motivate us, and persistence drives us forward. We value integrity over shortcuts, choosing to do what’s right even when it’s hard. Together, we strive to be better every day—because we know that’s how we win as a team. • Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from • Dental, vision life and disability insurance • Employee Emergency Fund • Company equity (stock options) • Open PTO policy • 401K plan with company match • Hybrid/flexible work environment • Note: Must be a full-time employee to participate in the company’s employee health benefit plan. Part-time employees and interns are not eligible to participate.
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