Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Cloud Platform
Summary
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will operate and scale GoDaddy's core AWS production infrastructure, focusing on automation, observability, and reliability. The role involves designing platform capabilities using Python and Infrastructure as Code tools like CloudFormation and AWS CDK.
Location Details:
At GoDaddy, the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely.
Remote: This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home. You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings.
About the Team
What you'll get to do...
- Operate and scale AWS production infrastructure, owning the health of services that provision, secure, and manage accounts across GoDaddy AWS organisations.
- Design, build, and maintain cloud platform capabilities using Python, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and automation-first practices.
- Drive cost optimisation initiatives that improve efficiency and deliver measurable business impact.Improve observability through monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational tooling.
- Participate in on-call rotations, lead incident response efforts, and drive long-term reliability improvements through blameless post-incident reviews.
- Support strategic AWS initiatives across networking, identity, governance, and multi-account architecture.
- Review code and designs, contribute documentation and operational runbooks, and mentor fellow engineers.
- Leverage AI-assisted tooling to improve engineering productivity, accelerate automation, and reduce operational toil.
Your experience should include...
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role supporting production AWS environments.
- Strong Python development skills with experience building automation, services, or platform tooling.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, including CloudFormation and/or AWS CDK.
- Experience operating core AWS services including IAM, VPC networking, EC2, Lambda, and managed storage or database services.
- Strong Linux systems administration, troubleshooting, incident response, and production operations experience.
You might also have...
- Experience operating AWS environments across multiple accounts or AWS Organisations.
- Experience with AWS networking technologies such as Transit Gateway, IPAM, or BYOIP.Cloud cost optimisation or FinOps experience.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-style deployment practices.
- Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering workflows and tooling.
- Exposure to policy-as-code, compliance automation, or cloud governance tooling.
We encourage you to apply even if your experience or skillset doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement. We value a wide range of backgrounds and transferable skills, and we are excited to support learning and growth.
About us... GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us.
At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.
We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way.
GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.
Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com.
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