Flexe

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States

Not SpecifiedCompensation
Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Logistics, Supply Chain, Software as a ServiceIndustries

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Employment Type: Hybrid Location Type: Seattle, WA Salary: $163,250 - $229,900 (depending on location)

Position Overview

Flexe is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Security and Infrastructure Engineering team. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining the tools and processes that ensure consistency and reliability for our internal engineering customers. This role is crucial in transforming the logistics industry by providing technology-powered flexible warehousing infrastructure to large enterprise companies.

Responsibilities

Platform Reliability & Observability (40%)

  • Design, implement, and maintain systems and tools to enhance the reliability, consistency, and performance of Flexe’s engineering platform.
  • Develop and manage metrics, logging, and monitoring strategies for real-time system health visibility.
  • Define and refine alerting strategies for timely and actionable responses.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation (30%)

  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and management using Terraform or equivalent tools.
  • Reduce manual toil by developing and integrating automated processes across the engineering toolchain.
  • Ensure infrastructure is consistent, secure, and compliant with best practices.

Cross-Team Collaboration & Enablement (20%)

  • Partner with other engineering teams to understand their needs and deliver scalable solutions.
  • Provide internal support and education on reliability best practices, SRE principles, and tooling adoption.
  • Act as a bridge between development and operations, improving deployment pipelines and workflows.

Continuous Improvement & Documentation (10%)

  • Thoroughly document systems, tools, and processes to support team onboarding and long-term maintenance.
  • Identify reliability gaps and continuously iterate on systems to improve developer confidence and velocity.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, reliability engineering, devops, or platform engineering roles.
  • Proven experience implementing infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) and automating infrastructure and operational workflows.
  • Strong background with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure); ability to manage resources and deployments at scale.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including managing clusters and related ecosystem tools.
  • Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and monitoring/logging systems for distributed environments.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including use of GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine).
  • Familiarity with ISTIO service mesh or similar service discovery and traffic control tools.
  • Advanced experience with Terraform for cloud infrastructure management.
  • Strong understanding of SRE best practices including SLAs, SLOs, and error budgeting.

Company Information

Flexe is a team of technology entrepreneurs and logistics experts transforming the $1.5T logistics industry. We deliver technology-powered flexible warehousing infrastructure to the world’s largest Enterprise companies, creating unprecedented agility and flexibility in their supply chains. Our cloud-based software platform connects to 1300+ warehouse operators across North America, making the process of sourcing, operating and scaling logistics services fast and efficient.

Learn more at Flexe.com.

Benefits

Our benefits package at Flexe is thoughtfully designed to help our employees lead healthy lives inside and outside of work.

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401k with employer match
  • Flexible Time Off Policy, with 10 company paid holidays
  • 2 days of volunteer time off
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave
  • Company equity as part of compensation package.

Application Instructions

This is a hybrid position based in Seattle, WA. Team members are expected to work in-office three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday), with remote work on Monday and Friday.

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Skills

System Reliability
Monitoring
Alerting
Terraform
Infrastructure as Code
Automation
Logging
Metrics
Collaboration
SRE Principles

Flexe

On-demand warehousing and fulfillment services

About Flexe

Flexe provides logistics and supply chain management services tailored for the e-commerce market. The company offers on-demand warehousing and fulfillment solutions that allow businesses to manage their inventory and order fulfillment without long-term commitments. This flexibility enables companies to adjust their storage needs based on demand, which is particularly useful for e-commerce businesses facing fluctuating sales. Flexe positions warehouses closer to consumers, which helps reduce transportation costs and improve delivery times, including same-day delivery options that set it apart from competitors like Amazon. By charging for its services based on usage, Flexe helps businesses save on capital costs while enhancing their operational efficiency.

Seattle, WashingtonHeadquarters
2013Year Founded
$319.8MTotal Funding
SERIES_DCompany Stage
Industrial & Manufacturing, Consumer GoodsIndustries
201-500Employees

Benefits

Med­ical, den­tal, & vision insurance
401k with employ­er match
4 weeks PTO
Additional 13 paid com­pa­ny hol­i­days
2 days of vol­un­teer PTO
12 weeks paid parental leave
Ful­ly remote, in-office, or hybrid work environment
$300 home office stipend
Month­ly home inter­net reimbursement
Employ­ee sup­port groups, social groups, & men­tor­ship program
Employ­ee-dri­ven pro­grams for volunteering
Man­ag­er devel­op­ment pro­gram & resources
Access to free LinkedIn Learn­ing courses

Risks

Increased competition from new Seattle logistics startups like Auger and Freightmate.
Decline in freight volumes and high interest rates strain Flexe's financial stability.
Recent layoffs and executive departures may disrupt Flexe's growth and service delivery.

Differentiation

Flexe offers on-demand warehousing, reducing fixed-term commitments for businesses.
Same-day delivery service helps Flexe compete with major players like Amazon.
Flexe's technology-driven logistics solutions enhance operational efficiency for e-commerce businesses.

Upsides

Growing e-commerce market increases demand for flexible warehousing solutions like Flexe's.
Seattle's logistics tech talent pool provides Flexe with skilled workforce and partnership opportunities.
Digital transformation in logistics offers Flexe opportunities to enhance technology-driven solutions.

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