Software Engineer

HumaniT is referring experienced Site Reliability Engineers to a remote contract opportunity a platform trusted by leading AI labs and Fortune 10 companies.

Role: Site Reliability Engineer — Production Systems Expert

Type: Independent Contractor | Fully Remote

Location: United States only

Rate: $100–$160/hr

Start Date: Late March, with additional openings in April

Who this is for:

— 3+ years of SRE, DevOps, or production engineering experience at a big tech company or leading startup

— Experience serving in on-call rotations managing Tier 1/Tier 2 production services with meaningful SLA requirements

— Proficient with observability stacks: Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, PagerDuty, or equivalent

— Deep knowledge of Linux systems, networking (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)

— Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and CI/CD pipelines

— Strong debugging skills from application-level tracing to kernel-level diagnostics

What you will do:

— Author and review complex, realistic scenarios grounded in production incidents

— Cover root cause analysis, monitoring and alerting, capacity planning, and post-incident remediation

— Help evaluate and train AI models that reason about system failures and operational best practices

This project is currently in a pilot phase — participants are expected to be highly engaged with project leadership.

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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