Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer - Platform Infrastructure

Bluesky's mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We're building a federated social network where users have more power. Our team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications. As a site reliability engineer, you'll operate and shape infrastructure that powers core Bluesky services, and will be a critical part of transforming social media.

Working on Bluesky’s cloud and bare-metal systems, you’ll be charting the path for long-term availability and resilience of systems running on dense, latest-generation servers running in our own racks performing millions of queries per second—all as we rapidly scale from tens to hundreds of millions of users.

Responsibilities:

• Plan the growth of Bluesky infrastructure with an eye towards availability and data durability.

• Drive on practices that improve operations, especially surrounding observability, documentation, and automation.

• Join the infra operational team, participating in our existing frontline on-call rotation.

• Work closely with engineers who develop our core software systems.

You might be a good fit if you:

• Have worked with systems running on self-hosted bare metal.

• Have familiarity with the upper limits of operating systems, networks, and storage.

• Have familiarity with internet-scale networking protocols like BGP and DNS-level load balancing.

• Have significant experience managing database systems (e.g. Postgres, SQLite, Cassandra, ScyllaDB).

• Have experience with various tools and platforms such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, MaaS, and CI/CD solutions.

• Have software engineering experience, particularly with Go.

• Like working on small, fast-moving teams.

• Have read the AT Protocol docs and want to contribute.

We're especially excited if you have:

• Previous experience working on infrastructure for social apps at large scale.

We're a fully remote team, though a significant overlap of working hours with US/Pacific is required. For full-time roles, we offer health, dental, and vision insurance.

Please attach your resume and links to your GitHub, GitLab, or a portfolio of past work within the same attachment.

The application also includes the following questions: 

1. Please write a cover letter explaining why you would like to work here at Bluesky.

2. If you have a Bluesky account, please share your handle here.