Senior Site Reliability Specialist II

At Everbridge, reliability isn’t just about uptime—it’s about ensuring that critical systems are available when they matter most. Every improvement you make helps organizations deliver life-saving communications and maintain operations during emergencies.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer II, you’ll do more than operate infrastructure. You’ll improve the resiliency of our engineering organization by building reliable platforms, eliminating operational toil, mentoring engineers, and helping teams design systems that are secure, scalable, and resilient by
default.

This is a highly collaborative technical leadership role for an engineer who enjoys solving systemic problems, influencing architecture, and enabling others to build reliable software.

What you'll do:

• Build platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to deliver reliable software safely and efficiently.
• Lead complex technical initiatives spanning cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, observability, automation, networking, and developer platforms.
• Influence engineering decisions through technical expertise, collaboration, and data.
• Help engineering teams become increasingly self-sufficient through coaching, automation, and well-designed platform capabilities.
• Continuously improve operational excellence by reducing complexity, eliminating manual work, and strengthening engineering practices.
• Design and implement solutions that improve the availability, scalability, performance, and resilience of our platform.
• Build automation that eliminates repetitive operational work and reduces engineering toil.
• Improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness across the organization.
• Use production data, reliability metrics, and engineering judgment to identify systemic improvements.
• Lead complex cross-functional engineering initiatives from design through production.
• Partner with architects, software engineers, security, product, and platform teams to build resilient systems from the beginning.
• Review architectures and designs with a focus on reliability, scalability, recoverability, and operational excellence.
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, best practices, and operational readiness guidance.
• Partner directly with engineering teams to improve the reliability of the services they own.
• Coach teams on observability, incident response, disaster recovery, capacity planning, and production readiness.
• Help teams adopt SLOs, error budgets, meaningful alerting, and engineering practices that improve customer outcomes.
• Make the right engineering decisions easier through automation, paved roads, and self-service capabilities.
• Participate in an on-call rotation supporting critical production systems.
• Lead the technical response during high-severity incidents.
• Facilitate blameless post-incident reviews that focus on learning and systemic improvement.
• Drive corrective actions through completion and measure their effectiveness over time.
• Share knowledge through documentation, technical design reviews, and collaborative problem solving.
• Foster a culture of ownership, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and customer focus.
  

What you'll bring:

• Experience with:
  • Designing and operating complex production systems.
  • Cloud infrastructure and cloud-native architectures.
  • Distributed systems and container platforms.
  • Infrastructure as Code and automation.
  • CI/CD and software delivery practices.
  • Observability, monitoring, logging, and telemetry.
  • Incident response and operational excellence.
  • Reliability engineering principles including SLOs, SLIs, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
  • Writing software or automation using one or more modern programming languages.
  • Linux and networking fundamentals.
  • Experience working within regulated environments such as FedRAMP, DoD, IL4/IL5, SOC 2, or ISO 27001 is a plus.

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Everbridge ranges from $145,000 - $177,000 and may also include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Everbridge offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, disability income benefits, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, and fitness reimbursements.

 

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We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities in compliance with all applicable Federal, Provincial/State and Local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act and any local County Fair Chance Ordinance (or local equivalent). Pursuant to these and other relevant regulations, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the law.

 

For roles subject to background checks, the following material job duties may be affected by an applicant’s criminal history:

- Access to sensitive or confidential information, such as financial records, proprietary data, or client information.

- Management of cash, company funds, or other valuable assets.

- Work in environments requiring heightened security measures.

- Compliance with contractual or regulatory requirements specific to the position.

 

We evaluate each applicant's criminal history individually, considering its nature, timing, and relevance to the specific job duties, while maintaining our commitment to fair hiring practices and promoting workplace equity.

About Everbridge

Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover from critical events. In an unpredictable world, resilient organizations protect their people and operations, adapt under pressure, and return to productivity faster. Our Critical Event Management (CEM) technology combines intelligent automation with comprehensive risk intelligence to help organizations strengthen resilience, keep people safe, and maintain operations.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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Everbridge does not require or administer lie detector (polygraph) tests as a condition of employment or continued employment. In Massachusetts, it is unlawful to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. Employers who violate this law may be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.