Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Flickr

Job Title

Software Engineer 3 - Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Flickr

Job Level

IC3

Location

Remote, within approved U.S. states (see below)

Help Power Flickr

Flickr is one of the world's largest photography communities and has been helping people store, discover, share, and preserve their photos for more than two decades. Every day, Flickr's infrastructure supports millions of photographers and manages billions of photos and videos that represent some of life's most important moments.

We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help build, operate, and evolve the systems behind Flickr. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on reliability, automation, scalability, and operational excellence across our AWS-based platform.

If you enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges, improving production systems, automating repetitive work, and operating services at meaningful scale, we'd love to talk with you.

Your Opportunity

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll help operate and improve the infrastructure that powers Flickr.

You'll work across cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, incident response, and platform reliability. You'll partner closely with software engineers, product teams, and support teams to ensure Flickr remains reliable, scalable, and performant for photographers around the world.

Compensation

Awesome is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this role is $132,000- $190,300. This position is also remote-friendly, and as such, compensation will ultimately be in line with the location in which the position is filled. Various factors, such as defined competency leveling and geographic location, will determine the final compensation for this role.

Benefits

• Health, dental, vision insurance with 100% premium coverage for you and dependents
• Health Savings Account contributions covering 90%+ of annual deductible
• 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting
• Professional development and learning opportunities
• Remote work support (internet, fitness, coworking space reimbursements)
• Company-sponsored therapy and coaching sessions

In This Role, You Will

• Design, build, and operate scalable cloud-native systems running on AWS, including ECS, Lambda, and related services.
• Lead infrastructure and operational projects from concept through implementation and long-term ownership.
• Improve reliability, monitoring, alerting, deployment processes, and operational workflows across the Flickr platform.
• Participate in and help lead incident response efforts, including troubleshooting, coordination, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Build automation and tooling that reduces operational burden and improves system resilience.
• Partner with engineers across the company to improve platform performance, reliability, and developer experience.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and contribute to decisions that shape Flickr's infrastructure and operational practices.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
• Strong experience building and operating production systems in AWS.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform.
• Experience managing distributed systems and cloud-native architectures at scale.
• Deep understanding of monitoring, alerting, incident response, troubleshooting, and production operations.
• Experience improving operational processes through automation, tooling, and system design.
• Strong Linux, networking, and systems fundamentals.