Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Autodesk

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Work type: Remote
Location: IDPlano, TX
Salary: $117,000–$209,330 / yr
Posted: 28 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 13 roles within 25 mi

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $182k

This role $163k

$104k most similar roles pay here $238k

This role pays less than 68% of similar roles. Most pay $150,000–$213,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $163k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Autodesk

Autodesk is a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, enabling users to imagine, design, and create a better world.

Autodesk currently has 17 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will join a new SRE team dedicated to building and operating reliable, secure, and scalable cloud services for Autodesk GovCloud products. You will serve as a primary owner for the reliability, availability, performance, and capacity of production services within restricted cloud environments. Your daily responsibilities include developing automation to improve deployment safety, implementing observability through monitoring and alerting, managing incidents, and reducing operational toil via software engineering. You will utilize tools and technologies including AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and containers while coding in Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, or Bash. The role focuses on solving the challenge of maintaining high-availability systems within regulated environments that require strict compliance with FedRAMP and other security standards to ensure critical customer-facing services remain operational and secure at scale.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $186200 from 131 postings across 36 companies.

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Skills

Site Reliability Engineering AWS Kubernetes Python Go Java Infrastructure as Code CI/CD CloudWatch Splunk Datadog Dynatrace Bash PowerShell FedRAMP Distributed Systems Load Balancing DNS

What you'll do

Own the reliability, availability, performance, and capacity of production services in GovCloud environments.
Deploy, operate, and maintain production services while ensuring they meet security and compliance standards.
Define and manage reliability practices including SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and production readiness reviews.
Build automation to improve deployment safety, operational efficiency, incident response, and service recovery.
Develop software, tools, and infrastructure as code to enhance system scalability and performance.
Implement monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing capabilities across all supported services.
Lead incident response efforts, troubleshooting, and post-incident reviews to drive continuous improvement.
Execute resilience testing and Gameday practices to validate system behavior and recovery capabilities.

What we're looking for

Must be a U.S. citizen.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a government-issued security clearance.
Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, or Production Operations.
Experience operating and supporting customer-facing production services in large-scale cloud environments.
Strong understanding of reliability engineering principles including SLOs/SLIs, observability, incident management, and automation.
Proficiency with AWS, Azure, or other public cloud platforms and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Experience developing automation using languages such as Python, Go, Java, PowerShell, or Bash.

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