Site Reliability Engineer at Tern

Tern Travel

📍 dover, nl, Canada

Full-time Other-General Posted June 02, 2026

Job Description

Take the lead in ensuring infrastructure reliability at Tern as a Site Reliability Engineer. Own GCP migration, optimize performance, and build a robust monitoring framework to support rapid user growth.

Tern is preparing for massive infrastructure demands with a user base expected to triple. We are looking for a hands-on technical expert to guide our migration from Heroku to Google Cloud Platform. This player-coach role combines technical leadership with coaching other engineers to enhance productivity and system reliability.

Key Responsibilities: • Own the migration from Heroku to Google Cloud Platform • Build and maintain the data layer with Postgres and BigQuery • Optimize key backend code paths for improved performance • Establish monitoring, alerting, and scaling strategies • Lead incident response and create post-mortem analyses

Requirements: • Proven production reliability ownership at scale • Experience with cloud migration and infrastructure-as-code...