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# Timescapes - Senior SRE - Austin, TX at Midwestern Interactive Growth Team

- **Company:** Midwestern Interactive Growth Team
- **Location:** Austin, TX
- **Compensation:** $130k–$160k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/midwestern-interactive/am9icG9zdDqg8ELusTAAFFFS_q2TzDSg

## Job description

Timescapes is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our small, but growing team of high-performers. We’re after someone who approaches problems from first principles, identifying underlying causes and diligently iterating towards the best solution. We believe that great products feature incredible experiences that customers never want to stop using.

Hybrid - Austin, TX: 2 to 3 days per week, but very flexible

## About us

Founded in New Zealand in 2017, Timescapes is a visual progress tracking solution for complex construction projects. Our mission is to simplify construction through shared visibility. Customers love Timescapes because it helps them stay on schedule, validate construction claims and communicate progress more effectively.

We’re a rapidly growing company, and are used by some of the largest construction firms across Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States. We’re deliberate and thoughtful in everything that we do, and we emphasize awareness, care and quality in our approach to product development.

## About the role

As our Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be responsible for building and operating the reliable, scalable systems that underpin Timescapes’ product and engineering teams. This is a broad, hands-on role spanning traditional site reliability engineering, ML platform architecture and the applied use of AI to improve engineering operations. Key aspects of the role include:

- Reliability and production operations: owning the availability, performance and resilience of our production systems, with a pragmatic approach to capacity, risk, cost and operational readiness.
- Observability and service health: defining meaningful SLIs and SLOs, strengthening instrumentation and alerting, and making system behaviour easier to understand before customers are affected.
- Incident management and learning: participating in and improving on-call practices, leading effective incident response and turning post-incident learning into durable improvements rather than temporary fixes.
- Platform automation and delivery: improving cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines and environment management so engineers can ship safely with less operational toil.
- ML platform architecture: driving the architecture that supports data preparation, model training, evaluation, deployment, monitoring and iteration, in close partnership with our AI / ML engineers.
- Applied AI for engineering operations: identifying and implementing AI-enabled tools and workflows that accelerate diagnosis, improve operational decision-making and remove repetitive work across engineering.
- Cross-functional partnership: working closely with the Software, AI, Product and Hardware teams to make sound trade-offs across reliability, security, developer experience, scalability and cost.

## About you

We want curious, driven and enthusiastic people who are motivated by the prospect of building solutions that endure. The people who thrive at Timescapes are critical thinkers who are not afraid to embrace the unconventional. If the following resonates with you, we should definitely chat:

- Production and ML systems experience: you’ve built and operated customer-facing systems and helped design or run production ML infrastructure. You’re comfortable diagnosing complex failures and supporting production software.
- Strong engineering fundamentals: you can write maintainable software, automate infrastructure and reason across distributed systems, networking, cloud services and data-intensive workloads.
- Value-oriented: you’re focussed on ensuring that Timescapes gets genuine value from engineering investments. You use methodologies, best practices and patterns as tools, but never let them get in the way of great customer outcomes.
- Obsessed with the “why”: you care about the details and take pride in sharing the rationale for your decisions. You question things that don’t make sense, and you expect others to do the same.
- All about the editing: you don’t expect to nail the solution on the first attempt. You’re comfortable discarding ideas, learning from production and treating the first release as the beginning.
- Adaptable and creative: you know that what worked in the past may not work in the future. You’re not deterred by ambiguity, and you’re excited about trying new things and finding your way through.
- Communication matters: you communicate clearly and succinctly, build strong working relationships and are equally comfortable on Slack / email, video calls and in person.

The following are definitely not required, but would be a bonus in this role:

- Computer vision infrastructure: you’ve supported media-heavy data pipelines, GPU workloads or computer vision and multimodal models across edge and cloud environments.
- Applied AI tooling: you’ve used LLMs or other AI systems to improve developer workflows, observability, incident response or engineering operations.
- Startup / scale-up experience: you’ve juggled competing priorities, rebuilt unscalable processes and know when to add structure without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.

## 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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