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# Senior SRE - Remote, PST - Contract to Hire at Midwestern Interactive Growth Team

- **Company:** Midwestern Interactive Growth Team
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** contract
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-08
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/midwestern-interactive/am9icG9zdDomHXG3jluKnug89gTxP7eN

## Job description

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Improve the reliability, performance, and operational maturity of a platform that supports the future of educational fundraising. CONTRACT-TO-HIRE REMOTE - UNITED STATES SEATTLE / WEST COAST PREFERRED

## About the role

Our client is looking for a hands-on Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, performance, and operational maturity of our platform. With our migration to AWS complete, this role will focus on strengthening our production environment: improving observability, automating infrastructure and operational work, enhancing incident response, and partnering with product engineers to build resilient systems. This is a high-impact role for someone who understands both infrastructure and application development. You will work across the stack, contribute code when appropriate, and help ensure our systems remain secure, scalable, and dependable as we grow.

## What you'll do

- Operate, maintain, and improve our production infrastructure in AWS.
- Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform.
- Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-level indicators using New Relic or comparable observability platforms.
- Reduce alert noise and build systems that identify problems before customers are affected.
- Participate in the 24/7 on-call rotation and help coordinate the response to production incidents.
- Lead blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions result in durable improvements.
- Partner with product engineers to diagnose performance and reliability issues throughout the application stack.
- Improve application resilience through appropriate use of timeouts, retries, queuing, backpressure, and idempotency.
- Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices using platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
- Automate repetitive operational work and reduce engineering toil.
- Create and maintain runbooks, system diagrams, troubleshooting guides, and production documentation.
- Support capacity planning, performance testing, database reliability, and production-readiness reviews.
- Collaborate with Security and Engineering teams on infrastructure hardening, access controls, logging, and compliance-related operational practices.
- Mentor engineers and promote effective reliability practices across the Engineering organization

## What we're looking for

- 10+ years of overall software engineering, infrastructure, or systems experience, including at least 5 years in an SRE, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or production operations role.
- Previous professional software development experience and the ability to read, debug, and contribute to application code. • Strong, hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS. • Experience building and maintaining infrastructure with Terraform or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool.
- Strong observability skills using New Relic, Datadog, or another modern monitoring platform. • Experience with incident response, on-call operations, postmortems, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of networking, Linux, distributed systems, and relational databases.
- Strong judgment when balancing immediate operational needs with long-term maintainability.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines.
- A track record of using automation to improve reliability and create leverage for other engineers.

Bonus points

- Experience with Ruby or Ruby on Rails.
- Strong PostgreSQL administration or performance-tuning experience.
- Experience operating enterprise SaaS products at scale.
- Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, capacity modeling, and load testing.
- Experience with payments, fintech, or other highly regulated systems.
- Experience supporting SOC 2 or similar security and compliance programs. Role details
- Contract-to-hire.
- Remote within the United States.
- Seattle-area or West Coast candidates are preferred to support occasional in-person collaboration, but exceptional candidates elsewhere should also be considered.
- Participation in a shared on-call rotation is required.

## About Midwestern Interactive Growth Team

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Midwestern Interactive is a talent partner that provides embedded teams, scoped projects, and recruiting services for tech companies building in the AI era.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped/Corporate Round funding)
- **Headquarters**: Joplin, Missouri, United States
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Matt Johnson (CEO/Owner)

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Software Development, Talent & Staffing, Technology Consulting
- Target customers: Growing tech companies (from Fortune 500 to early-stage startups) that need to move fast without building everything in-house
- Mission or purpose statement: "We complete work with purpose and precision. We lead with humility, drive, and wisdom. We take care of what is entrusted to us, including time, budget, relationships, and trust."

## Products & Services
- **Embedded Teams**: Top-tier talent that integrates seamlessly with a client's team, providing specialized expertise that scales with the vision while maintaining flexibility as priorities shift.
- **Scoped Projects**: Time-defined project teams with clear objectives and predictable costs, covering Discovery, MVPs, technical validation, brand development, and more.
- **Recruiting Services**: Full-cycle talent acquisition for direct placement, contract-to-hire, or embedded recruiters, finding hidden talent aligned with technical needs and company culture.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 80 employees (+11.0% YoY); 120+ clients served; 250K+ hours delivered annually; products have raised over $450M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Gloo (lead investor in 2025 Corporate Round)
- **Growth Signals**: 38.3% LinkedIn follower growth (yearly); expanding headcount with 12 new hires in the last year; multiple office locations across the US and Brazil

## Competitive Advantages
- **Three-in-one model**: Unlike traditional staffing agencies focused solely on headcount, Midwestern offers embedded teams, scoped projects, and recruiting under one US contract, providing flexibility that rigid staffing models cannot match.
- **US-led, global reach**: Globally sourced talent configured to a client's region, timezone, and budget, with all management under a single US contract.
- **13+ years of experience** with a track record of serving 120+ clients from Fortune 500 to early-stage startups.
- **Senior leadership depth**: CTO, VP of Scoped, Director of Engineering, Design Director, and other experienced leaders ensure high-quality delivery.

## Strategic Focus
- Current priorities include scaling the embedded teams model for AI-era work, expanding into new markets (notably Brazil), and deepening partnerships with growth-stage tech companies.
- Emphasis on "flexible talent, global reach" — enabling clients to scale up or down easily without overcommitting.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values-driven environment emphasizing clear communication, reliable follow-through, and commitment to quality. The team operates with humility, drive, and wisdom.
- **Work model**: Hybrid/remote-friendly with offices in Joplin (HQ), Springfield, and Dayton, plus a distributed workforce in Brazil.
- **Notable perks**: Opportunity to work on impactful products that have raised over $450M; exposure to a wide range of clients from startups to Fortune 500; clear career progression paths.
- **Engineering culture**: 39% of staff are in technical roles (47 people), with strong seniority distribution (26% specialist, 16% other management, 12% manager, 9% senior). Team members come from diverse backgrounds including DevMountain, Jack Henry, Leggett & Platt, and Gloo.
- **Growth opportunities**: 11% yearly headcount growth indicates a scaling organization with upward mobility for high performers.

## Sources
1. [Midwestern.com - Homepage](https://midwestern.com/)
2. [Midwestern.com - About Page](https://midwestern.com/about)
3. [Midwestern Interactive Career Page](https://careers.midwesterninteractive.com/apply)
4. [LinkedIn - Midwestern Interactive](https://linkedin.com/company/buildmidwestern)
5. [Built In - Midwestern Interactive Jobs](https://builtin.com/company/midwestern-interactive-llc/jobs)

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