The Role
Designs and maintains highly available, scalable, secure systems for a global gaming platform. Responsibilities include defining reliability objectives, leading incident response and postmortems, developing observability and alerting strategies, optimizing performance, automating operational tasks, supporting architecture reviews, and mentoring engineers. The role partners across engineering teams to implement SRE best practices and improve system resilience, scalability, and operational excellence.
Summary Generated by Built In
At Bellota Labs, we are a fast-paced, hypergrowth startup poised to revolutionize the gaming world with ClubWPT Gold—a groundbreaking product from the World Poker Tour. Driven by innovation, game integrity, and exceptional customer experiences, we are on a mission to set new standards in online gaming.
We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and maintain highly reliable, scalable, and secure systems. You will play a critical role in ensuring system availability, performance, and operational excellence across our infrastructure and applications.
As a senior member of the team, you will also mentor engineers, influence architecture decisions, and drive best practices in reliability engineering, automation, and incident management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant systems.
- Define and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
- Lead incident response, root cause analysis (RCA), and postmortems.
- Improve system resiliency and reduce operational toil through automation.
- Design monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies.
- Implement tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or similar.
- Establish proactive alerting and capacity planning processes.
- Conduct performance testing and optimization.
- Identify bottlenecks and implement improvements.
- Support system scaling initiatives and architecture reviews.
- Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability into development processes.
- Lead reliability initiatives and cross-functional projects.
- Mentor junior engineers and promote SRE best practices.
Reliability & Availability
Observability & Monitoring
Performance & Scalability
Collaboration & Leadership
Experience:
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS).
- Deep understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in scripting/programming (Python, Go, Bash, or similar).
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Datadog/Prometheus).
Preferred Technologies (Nice to Have):
- Experience operating high-scale production systems.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Background in database reliability (Postgres, MySQL, Redis, etc.).
- Experience implementing SRE practices (error budgets, blameless postmortems).
- Experience with AI-driven SRE
Lead High-Impact Projects – Play a key role in delivering innovative gaming experiences to a global audience
Collaborate Across Borders – Work with talented teams across Asia and the US
Fast-Paced Growth – Be part of a hypergrowth startup with ambitious goals
Competitive Benefits – Enjoy a top-tier compensation package in a dynamic company
Skills Required
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
- Strong experience with AWS
- Deep understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting/programming languages
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog or Prometheus
- Experience operating high-scale production systems
- Experience with microservices architecture
- Background in database reliability, including Postgres, MySQL, or Redis
- Experience implementing SRE practices such as error budgets and blameless postmortems
- Experience with AI-driven SRE
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The Company
What We Do
Bellota Labs is a software development studio specializing in game development and publishing, focusing on creating engaging digital experiences. They partner with world-class brands to build products that players love. The studio is currently on a mission to revolutionize the online gaming space, specifically the online poker industry, through their groundbreaking flagship product, ClubWPT Gold, combining deep game design expertise with high-growth ambitions.
