Jobs at Discogs (Now Hiring) — 1 open

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Beaverton, Oregon, United States · Remote Solely

Senior$3M raised

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE) Department: Engineering Employment Type: Full Time Location: REMOTE US Compensation: $140,000 / year Description Who We’re Looking For The Discogs Platform team is focused on sev…

Skills: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, AWS, FinOps

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Discogs

Beaverton, Oregon, United States • Remote Solely

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Full-time
bachelor degree
Performance-related bonus program, 401(k) with employer match, Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Paid vacation, Paid birth leave
Posted 34d ago
~40 hrs/week
Remote in California, United States, Colorado, United States, Illinois, United States, Oregon, United States

Responsibilities

Maintain and automate centralized cloud infrastructure including Kubernetes and databases while leading incident response and postmortem efforts. Mentor engineering teams on platform best practices and contribute to agentic AI tooling and Kafka event workflows.

Requirements

Requires 5+ years of experience in SRE or DevOps roles and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience. Proficiency in Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, and scripting languages like Python is essential.

Full job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (REMOTE)

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: REMOTE US

Compensation: $140,000 / year

Description

Who We’re Looking For
The Discogs Platform team is focused on several objectives: building and supporting performant, cost-effective, reliable cloud infrastructure; data administration of complex CDC workflows; and developer experience tooling and mentorship, including our agentic AI discipline. As a Platform member, the Senior Site Reliability Engineer will contribute to the Platform team’s centralized infrastructure, including maintenance, monitoring, and automation of services ranging from databases to Kubernetes; lead incident response and postmortem efforts; and work closely with other engineering teams to understand their needs and drive improvements to both our technologies and processes.

Location

While we are a remote company we are only hiring for the following locations: OR, WA, CA, CO, TX, IL

Compensation

Fixed Position Rate: $140,000
This role carries a single, non-negotiable Fixed Position Rate to ensure absolute equity and eliminate negotiation bias.

Key Responsibilities

What You’ll Accomplish

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

Owning tasks and larger projects from planning to production rollout
Learning new technologies and building expertise with the goal of teaching and mentoring others; mentoring with the goal of force-multiplying through docs and tools
Maintaining organization cloud presence in AWS
Automating and deploying infrastructure configurations using Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
Mentoring engineering squads on Platform best practices for Kubernetes, MySQL, Kafka, and other software development lifecycle areas
Assisting engineering squads with capacity planning, on-call preparation, and production readiness
Writing documentation and runbooks that contribute to the engineering organization’s knowledge base
Implementing monitoring and alerting systems with Discogs observability tools
Working in a containerized, orchestrated environment
Participating in on-call rotation, responding to incidents, and troubleshooting data and other operations issues
Contributing to the reliability and design patterns of our Kafka CDC and event workflows
Contributing to agentic AI best practices and tooling, including skills, agents, and safety

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

What You’ll Contribute
Required (or equivalent tools; listed is our current stack):

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
Kubernetes (EKS, Kustomize, Karpenter, administration, application manifests)
AWS and cloud development (VPC, EKS, RDS, S3)
FinOps and cloud cost optimization
Observability (Datadog, Sentry)
Agentic AI (Claude Code)
Scripting (Shell, Python)
Track record of collaboration and mentorship
Excellent written communication and documentation skills
Continuous learning
Ownership and proactive approach to solving large problems

Preferred:

Kafka: Cluster administration (Strimzi), Kafka Connect (Debezium, JDBC)
Flink
Relational database administration and performance (MySQL, Percona Server, AWS RDS)
Elasticsearch (ECK administration, scaling, performance)
Python (SQLAlchemy, FastAPI)
GraphQL (schema design, Apollo federation)
REST API
GitOps (ArgoCD)
Hashicorp Vault
Redis
Memcached

Education & Experience:

A Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or similar area of focus, or equivalent relevant work experience.
5+ years experience in Ops, DevOps, Site Reliability, Platform or other systems roles.

Benefits

What We Provide

Competitive compensation: salary, plus performance-related bonus program
401(k) with employer match
100% company-paid medical and dental insurance benefits for you and your dependents
4 weeks paid vacation, increasing based on tenure
18 weeks paid leave for birth moms
8 weeks paid parental leave, including for adoption
Monthly wellness allowance
Annual professional and personal development allowance
Work from home office set-up and expense allowances
Flexible work location opportunities
Employer matching toward charitable contributions

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About Discogs

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The world's leading music discovery and record collecting platform empowered by a community of obsessed music fans.

Industry: Musicians
Company size: 51-200 employees
Founded: 2000
Headquarters: Beaverton, Oregon
LinkedIn followers: 38,917
Total funding: $3M

Discogs is a music discovery and record collecting platform empowered by a community of obsessed fans from all over the world. With a comprehensive, crowdsourced discography integrated with a global music marketplace and personalized collection management tools, discover music, buy and sell records, connect with community, fuel your collecting journey, and deepen your connection to music. Discogs is a certified Great Place to Work™ thanks to amazing people who continuously evolve the platform to provide the best experience possible for music fans, record collectors, and independent sellers across the world.

Offices: 4145 SW Watson Ave, Beaverton, Oregon 97005, US · Keizersgracht 555, Amsterdam, North Holland 1017 DR, NL

MusicDatabaseMarketplaceCommunityCollectionVinylVinyl RecordsCDsCassettesMusic Discovery

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About Discogs

LinkedIn Visit site

The world's leading music discovery and record collecting platform empowered by a community of obsessed music fans.

Industry: Musicians
Company size: 51-200 employees
Founded: 2000
Headquarters: Beaverton, Oregon
LinkedIn followers: 38,917
Total funding: $3M

Offices: 4145 SW Watson Ave, Beaverton, Oregon 97005, US · Keizersgracht 555, Amsterdam, North Holland 1017 DR, NL

MusicDatabaseMarketplaceCommunityCollectionVinylVinyl RecordsCDsCassettesMusic Discovery

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