Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Ironwood Digital Build)

About Ironwood Digital Ironwood Digital is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Ironwood Digital rs working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Ironwood Digital team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! The Position Ironwood Digital Build is Ironwood Digital 's agentic shift: as AI agents proliferate across HR and Finance stacks, they need to route through the employment infrastructure layer - labour law across 100+ countries, payroll, entity structures, the compliance rail. The infrastructure powering these integrations must be rock-solid, secure, and built for scale. As Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Ironwood Digital Build , you'll own the operational excellence and infrastructure strategy that makes Build's platform reliable, performant, and safe for customers. You'll report to the Engineering Manager and work closely with the Ironwood Digital Build leadership group, product managers, engineers, and customer success to ensure every engagement scales reliably from day one. What you’ll do Infrastructure as code at scale. Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Kubernetes that support both standard connectors and custom builds. Make it easy for engineers to deploy and operate with confidence. Observability and incident response. Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. Lead incident response efforts, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvement in system reliability. Security and compliance in motion. Work with our Security team to embed security into every layer of Build infrastructure. Ensure we meet compliance requirements across 100+ jurisdictions without creating friction for developers or customers. Performance and cost optimisation. Continuously optimize system performance, resource utilization, and cloud costs. Make recommendations that improve both reliability and unit economics. Automation and operational leverage. Identify manual operational toil and systematically eliminate it. Build tools and processes that let teams operate efficiently without scaling headcount. Platform reliability and developer experience. Partner with platform teams to ensure APIs, MCP, and CLI are resilient and observable. Give infrastructure feedback that shapes how the platform evolves. What you’ll bring Senior-level SRE experience: demonstrated experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or SysOps role. You have stood up and operated production systems at scale. Kubernetes and AWS: deep, hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production. Solid AWS fundamentals across compute, networking, storage, and managed services. Infrastructure-as-code: Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC tools. You write code to define infrastructure; you don't click buttons in the console. CI/CD and deployment automation: real experience setting up and operating GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar. You understand deployment strategies, rollback mechanisms, and safety nets. Scripting and systems knowledge: strong bash scripting. Comfortable debugging system-level issues, reading logs, and understanding Linux kernel basics. Great communication: you explain complex infrastructure decisions clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. You write clear runbooks and documentation. Nice to have: Experience with 1+ backend programming language (Elixir, Python, Go, Java, Node.js, etc.). Experience in consultancy settings. Container registry and artifact management (ECR, Docker Hub, etc.). Observability stack depth (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, or similar). Experience working with or scaling multi-tenant platforms. Practicals You'll report to: Engineering Manager Team: Engineering Location: Anywhere in the World Start date: As soon as possible Application process Interview with recruiter Interview with hiring manager Infrastructure Deep Dive Executive interview Bar raiser interview Offer + Background Check ( Ironwood Digital -96e108c037b8423cbd4c3f07a1f9b38b?pvs=21" rel="nofollow ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Veremark & Ironwood Digital ) Ironwood Digital 's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure