Site Reliability Engineer

About DAT

DAT is an award-winning employer of choice and a next-generation SaaS technology company that has been at the leading edge of innovation in transportation supply chain logistics for 45 years. We continue to transform the industry year over year, by deploying a suite of software solutions to millions of customers every day - customers who depend on DAT for the most relevant data and most accurate insights to help them make smarter business decisions and run their companies more profitably. We operate the largest marketplace of its kind in North America, with 400 million freights posted in 2022, and a database of $150 billion of annual global shipment market transaction data. Our headquarters are in Denver, CO, and Beaverton, OR, with additional offices in Seattle, WA; Springfield, MO; and Bangalore, India. For additional information, see www.DAT.com/company

Job Application Deadline: 01/20/2026

The Opportunity

DAT is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE platform team. This position will work hybrid in Seattle, WA.

Candidate profile

DAT is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to help grow our SRE practices. In this role, you will be responsible for contributing to technical initiatives and enhancing your skills. You’ll work closely with development teams and platform architects to achieve critical reliability goals and help scale our platform. A successful candidate will be instrumental in driving key technical initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and significantly enhancing their own professional expertise.

This role necessitates close collaboration with various stakeholders, including our dedicated development teams and platform architects. The primary objective of these partnerships is to collectively achieve ambitious reliability goals and strategically scale our platform to meet evolving growth of the company. The SRE will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of our systems, implementing robust monitoring solutions, automating operational tasks, and proactively identifying and resolving potential issues. This will involve a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and a commitment to best practices in site reliability engineering.

What You’ll Do

• Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and reliable systems.  Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliability targets are met.
• Identify and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
• Advocate for and implement SRE best practices, including automation, monitoring, and incident response, to enhance system resilience.
• Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning to proactively address potential bottlenecks and support future growth.
• Leverage new AI tools to assist with software development and observability tasks.
• Assist and respond to critical engineering incidents.
• Improve your engineering skills within the SRE team.
• Provide technical guidance and best practices for use of cloud infrastructure and tooling. Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code within the platform.  We strive to automate all the things!
• Contribute to reliability-focused initiatives and projects.
• Help optimize our work to be customer-focused. Continually seek feedback from our customers on how we can improve.
• Assist in migrating legacy systems to modern, scalable cloud environments.
• Help develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement with the Platform Engineering and Software Engineering groups.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.

The Skills and Experience You’ll Bring

• Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities, especially within SRE or Platform Engineering/Infrastructure teams.
• Total of 4 to 6+ years industry experience
• At least 2+ years of software engineering experience (JavaScript, Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, C++, etc)
• Extensive experience with modern observability tools (Datadog preferred).  Experience working with development teams on APM monitoring and instrumentation.
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
• Demonstrated success in contributing to large technical initiatives and acting as a driving force to complete those initiatives.
• Proven experience assisting in modernizing legacy code and infrastructure.
• Ability to work closely with peer teams, platform/software architects and management to drive key reliability improvements.
• Willingness to share your expertise among team members and others within the engineering organization.  We value upleveling our peers however we can.
• Understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and best practices for reliability.
• Strong desire to automate toil work and create easily maintainable tooling for the team and developers.
• Strong Experience with our tools (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Github Actions).
• Experience with AI Tooling/Observability a plus.

Why DAT?
DAT is an award winning employer of choice.

For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We’ve been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado’s 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
• Parental Leave
• Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
• An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
• 401k matching (immediately vested)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Accounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
• Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
• Collaborative and supportive team culture
• Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
• Employee Resource Groups

For Washington-based candidates, in compliance with the Washington State Pay Transparency Law, the salary range for this role is $102,000.00 - $139,000.00 + target bonus. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.

DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.

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