Site Reliability Engineer

Location: Costa Rica, Remote

SweetRush has an exciting opportunity for a talented professional to join our IT & Security team!

Who We Are
At SweetRush, we believe that when you put people at the center of business, magic happens. As a global leader in learning and development, we blend high-end storytelling, emerging tech like AI and VR, and deep psychological insights to help organizations—from iconic global brands to essential nonprofits—flourish. We are a remote-first, tight-knit community built on a foundation of radical empathy and creative excellence. Our work isn’t just about the awards we win with incredible partners such as Hilton, Google, Bridgestone, Adidas, SHRM, and numerous others; it’s about balancing profit with a genuine desire to spread good in the world. If you are a caring innovator who believes work should be life-centered and impactful, then this is where you come in…

SweetRush is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help design, build, and scale the infrastructure that powers our products and services.

As a SRE, you will be responsible for improving reliability, scalability, performance, and security across our cloud-native environments. You will play a key role in defining reliability standards, strengthening observability, and driving automation across our systems.

This is a high-impact role within a small, collaborative IT & Security team, with strong ownership and influence over our technical direction.

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What You’ll Do

Reliability & Production Engineering

• Define and implement SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
• Improve system availability, resiliency, and performance
• Lead incident response and drive blameless postmortems
• Identify and eliminate systemic reliability risks
• Conduct capacity planning and performance analysis

Infrastructure & Automation

• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure in AWS
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (GitLab CI)
• Build and maintain containerized systems using Docker and Kubernetes
• Reduce toil through automation and self-service tooling

Observability & Monitoring

• Enhance monitoring, logging, and tracing systems
• Use tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, X-Ray, and modern observability platforms
• Improve alerting quality to reduce noise and increase signal
• Develop dashboards and reliability metrics for stakeholders

Security & Operational Excellence

• Implement best practices in infrastructure hardening
• Improve patching, vulnerability management, and cloud security posture
• Support incident response and remediation efforts
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing

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What You Bring

Required Experience

• 5+ years in SRE, Production Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles
• Strong experience operating production systems in AWS
• Deep knowledge of Linux systems architecture
• Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform (or similar IaC tools)
• Experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
• Experience designing, monitoring and alerting systems
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals

SRE Mindset

• Experience defining and measuring SLOs/SLIs
• Strong incident management experience
• Passion for automation and eliminating manual toil
• Data-driven approach to reliability and performance

Nice to Have

• Experience in multi-cloud environments (Azure)
• Experience with security frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
• Familiarity with cost optimization in cloud environments
• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling

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How You Work

• You take ownership of production systems
• You think in systems, not tickets
• You value automation over manual processes
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• You thrive in a collaborative, remote-first environment

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What We Offer

• Fully remote work environment
• High-impact role with technical ownership
• Collaborative, mission-driven culture
• Opportunity to shape reliability practices in a growing organization

SweetRush Is an Equal Opportunity Employer

We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, or belief; national, social, or ethnic origin; sex (including pregnancy); age; physical, mental, or sensory disability; HIV status; sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or expression; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; past or present military service; family medical history or genetic information; family or parental status; or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. SweetRush will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. We encourage applicants of all ages.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Call to Action: Submit Your Resume!

Team chemistry is everything to us, so our ultimate goal is to find the right fit. If the above describes your interests and experience, and you believe this will be a dream job, please submit your resume. We are excited to hear from you!

Please note: We're all about remote work and have collaborators based all around the world; however, SweetRush is a US-based company, and English is our primary language. If you'd like to be considered for this opportunity, please submit your resume in English.

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