Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability

Job Overview

Parabola is a workflow builder that makes it easy to organize and transform messy data from anywhere—even PDFs, emails, and spreadsheets—so that forward-thinking teams can automate the work they thought would always be manual. Teams at fast-moving companies like Brooklinen, On Running, and Flexport use Parabola to save hundreds of hours and finally take on the projects that used to feel out of reach.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor our core business-logic software, both via on-call and in non-urgent situations: describing its existing behavior and defining SLOs or SLAs.


• Extend and monitor our infrastructure stack, ensuring reliability for business-critical usage.


• Maintain both a mental and a reified model of our systems to estimate risk, plan projects, and debug efficiently.


• Collaborate with our engineering team and company leadership from your unique lens on site reliability.


• Work on our core orchestration logic that determines how to efficiently run tens of thousands of workflows at the same time.


• Advise many parallel major backend engineering projects, both early in planning and through release.


• Optimize our services for scalability, stability, and observability as our customer base grows.


• Improve our developer experience and engineering processes, especially given the opportunities & pressures of LLM coding agents.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of SRE, DevOps, or Platform engineering experience.


• A proven record of building efficient, performant, and easy to extend systems.


• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and Linux.


• Experience implementing and managing AWS infrastructure.


• You’re an enthusiastic communicator and a team player.


• Excited to join a hybrid team and work out of our NYC or SF office ~3 days a week.

About Parabola

Parabola is backed by OpenView Partners, Matrix Partners, Thrive Capital and more. We are a rapidly growing team focused on empowering teams to automate workflows without needing engineering support.