Senior Site Reliability Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer based in South Africa.

• As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will take end-to-end ownership of the reliability and operational performance of critical production systems.
• You will work hands-on across cloud infrastructure, observability, incident response, capacity planning, performance, and deployment safety.
• The role sits within a globally distributed infrastructure team supporting a high-throughput platform where availability, latency, and correctness directly affect customers.
• You will define reliability targets, improve monitoring and alerting, and use real production data to identify and resolve risks before they become incidents.
• You will also build infrastructure and software tooling that makes services easier to operate and reduces repetitive operational work.
• Working closely with product engineering teams, you will help design systems for resilience from the start while mentoring engineers and strengthening operational practices across the organization.