Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer

Company Description

Onetera is dedicated to redesigning how communities interact with local government agencies to improve community well-being and opportunity. Our vision is to create a world where anyone is one conversation away from any local public sector service, with personalized, accessible, and proactive solutions.

Role Description

This is a full-time on-site role for a Site Reliability & DevOps Engineer at our Los Angeles, CA HQ. You’ll own the reliability, scalability, security, and performance of our entire production footprint—from microservices to monitoring dashboards.

Qualifications

Design, build, and maintain Dockerized services on AWS ECS (Fargate/EC2)

Define and manage infrastructure with Terraform or CloudFormation

Build and own CircleCI pipelines for backend (Flask) and infrastructure changes

Deploy and coordinate front-end/static assets on Vercel with zero-downtime rollouts

Implement monitoring, alerting, and runbooks; lead on-call and incident response

Instrument PostHog for product analytics and centralize logs (CloudWatch/ELK)

Profile and optimize Python/Flask services for latency, throughput, and cost

Configure autoscaling, resource allocation, and container settings to control spend

Enforce security best practices: IAM policies, VPC design, secret management

Collaborate across engineering and product teams to embed SRE/DevOps principles

Responsibilities

4+ years in SRE/DevOps or similar roles at high-growth tech companies.

Hands-on with AWS ECS (Fargate or EC2 launch types).

Deep experience containerizing applications with Docker.

Strong Python skills—especially building and operating Flask services.

Proven CircleCI expertise (pipelines, caching, parallelism).

Familiarity deploying static/front-end applications on Vercel.

Experience with PostHog (or comparable product-analytics platforms) and centralized logging.

Solid Linux administration and networking fundamentals.

Excellent troubleshooting skills across distributed, microservice-based systems.