Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Denver, CO
Full Time
Engineering
Experienced

TL;DR Kharon is seeking a full-time Site Reliability Engineer based in Denver, Colorado In office attendance is expected in this role. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Stand up and standardize metrics, logging, tracing, and alert hygiene; introduce golden dashboards and alert runbooks.
  • Coach engineers on reliability practices, including leading incident response (MTTA/MTTR) running blameless postmortems, reliability reviews.
  • Plan capacity, conduct load/perf tests, and drive performance tuning and cost–reliability tradeoffs.
  • Collaborate with DevOps on Kubernetes/cloud/IaC standards, including creating paved roads and production-readiness checklists for app teams.
  • Work cross functionally on resilient CI/CD (pre-deployment checks, canary/blue-green, automated rollbacks).
  • Align with security on least privilege, secrets management, and audit-ready operational practices.
  • Define RTO/RPO, backups, and failover drills; document and test recovery playbooks.
  • Identify opportunities related to repetitive work and automations (scripts, jobs, runbooks, self-service tooling).
  • Help shape on-call rotations, escalation policies, and handbooks, ultimately improving signal-to-noise and engineer well-being.
  • Assist in defining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets with product/engineering, creating visibility into availability, latency, and quality.

QUALIFICATIONS: 

  • 6+ years of experience in software engineering or DevOps, and at least 2+ years in a site reliability engineering (SRE) or reliability-focused role.
  • Strong networking fundamentals including DNS, Kubernetes routing, load balancing, WAF, multi-VPC routing in AWS, Traefik.
  • Solid software fundamentals (one or more of: Python, Java, Go, Scala or similar) and ability to read/modify production services.
  • Deep experience in a major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Proficiency with IaC (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD systems, and git-based workflows.
  • Hands-on with metrics/logging/tracing systems and alerting best practices.
  • Proven incident commander experience and skillful facilitation of blameless postmortems.
  • Solid grasp of networking, HTTP, load balancing, caching, and data stores (SQL/NoSQL/queues).
  • Excellent communication, documentation, and cross-team influence.

Kharon is a highly disruptive and incredibly innovative organization that navigates risk at the intersection of global security threats + international commerce.

What does that mean? Great question.

Operating at the nexus of global security, Kharon is on a mission to revolutionize the current landscape. We take really complex data as it relates to global security and empower our clients to not only understand the risk associated with their potential business relationships but to operationalize that data so that they can make the best and most informed decisions possible. From financial crimes and sanctions to export controls and threat identifications, our tools optimize protection against the types of risks that could otherwise be incredibly dangerous and excessively costly to any business. Serving many of today’s leading global financial and multinational institutions, Kharon products are the most powerful in the space with a precision and depth that is absolutely unparalleled. 

When you look at any major global crisis event, we’re providing intelligence that’s at the heart of those circumstances. We connect the dots in a way that’s meaningful. Now, we’re experiencing unprecedented growth. As the world continues to evolve in complexity, so too does the demand for our products. Given the significance of our work and the increasing global reliance on our insights, we are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join us as we work to shape the way businesses perceive and navigate global risks. 

Reporting to the Director of Engineering, as a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be the force behind building systems that are fast, resilient, and scalable. At Kharon, reliability isn’t just about uptime, it’s about ensuring our clients can trust critical insights when they need them most. You’ll champion best practices in observability, automation, and incident response, while collaborating across engineering, DevOps, and security to create paved roads that empower teams to deliver with confidence. From defining SLOs and streamlining on-call to optimizing performance and driving recovery readiness, your work will directly strengthen the foundation that enables Kharon to deliver mission-critical intelligence at scale.

To the right person, this will be the perfect kind of challenge. Our mission is compelling, our product is powerful, and we’re growing at a rate that makes us unstoppable. If you’re looking to be surrounded by people who will inspire you to think and challenge you to grow then look no further. Our team is made up of some of the most visionary and uncompromising individuals you will ever encounter. We don’t take ourselves seriously but we’re serious about the work we do and there is absolutely no slowing us down.  

To keep that momentum going, we do our very best to make sure that each and every team member is completely taken care of. We’re nothing without our people and we strive to offer a package that reflects that. As a Kharon team member, you can expect:

  • Fully sponsored medical, dental, and vision 
  • FSA program for both medical and dependent care
  • 401k + Roth with matching and immediate vesting
  • Paid time off + 11 paid holidays 

The base salary range at Kharon is set between $155,000 - $170,000. Please note that this figure does not necessarily include potential bonuses, commissions, benefits, or equity that may be part of the overall compensation package.

If interested in pursuing this position, please visit www.kharon.com to apply. 

Kharon is committed to cultivating and maintaining a workplace that is free from harassment and discrimination.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or identity, neurodiversity, appearances, age, protected veteran status, or status as a qualified individual with disability.

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