Reliability Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will be responsible for: Operational Excellence & Incident Management

• Maintain and monitor production systems for availability, latency, and performance.

• Lead incident response efforts, including communication, resolution, and postmortem documentation.

• Design and implement health checks, alerting systems, and automated remediation workflows.

• Drive root cause analysis and implement permanent resolutions for recurring issues.

Observability & Insights

• Set up and maintain full observability stacks (logging, metrics, tracing) using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or ELK.

• Analyze telemetry and logs to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.

• Conduct post-incident reviews and use insights to inform future engineering investments.

Performance & Systems Optimization

• Tune and optimize distributed systems, including AKKA.NET actors, for performance and resource efficiency.

• Work with developers to evolve architecture and improve system throughput, latency, and stability.

• Optimize PostgreSQL performance, queries, and maintenance strategies.

CI/CD & Automation

• Design and maintain modern CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, or GitLab CI.

• Automate deployment, testing, and rollback processes to reduce friction and increase deployment frequency.

• Standardize infrastructure as code practices across environments.

We’d love to talk to you if you have:

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.

• Expertise in Kubernetes and container orchestration at scale.

• Strong experience with AKKA.NET or similar actor-based frameworks.

• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python).

• Experience with observability tools (Phobos,Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge—performance tuning, query optimization, maintenance.

• Proven ability to lead incident management and drive postmortem processes.

• A builder’s mindset with high standards for operational excellence and technical ownership.

Preferred Tools & Ecosystem Experience

• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, GitLab CI

• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform

• Monitoring: Phobos (AKKA.NET), Datadog, Prometheus

• Source Control: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps

• Programming: C#, Python, Bash, PowerShell