SRE Engineer Contractor

ABOUT US Join us in inspiring everyone to express their unique beauty. IPSY is the beauty industry’s most powerful platform, uniting brands, creators, and hyper-engaged consumers with unprecedented access to each other through the ultimate beauty membership. Home to sample-size subscription IPSY Original, full-size subscription IPSY Extra, and quarterly, limited-edition collection IPSY Ultimate, we curate beauty for millions of members so they can play, explore, and express their unique beauty every day. We think self-discovery, self-expression, and confidence are beautiful. Agree? Then join us! Explore careers and learn more about our values, culture, and benefits across all our brands: IPSY Careers . We're proud to be a remote-first company. Our fully remote team members have the chance to live and work where they want, because we believe work should fit into your life—not the other way around. We offer monthly virtual activities, company-wide offsites, professional development, and learning sessions, to help our team members stay connected, engaged, and impactful while working virtually. United States Remote: Remote positions which may be performed in any of the states where IPSY has established a Business presence: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missouri, North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington. California Privacy Notice Beware job scams! IPSY recruiters only use @ ipsy.com email addresses. We do not interview via text/message/Teams. We don't ask for software downloads (except Zoom) and we will never ask for sensitive information (like SSN/bank info). Suspect fraud? Report it to law enforcement and recruiting@ipsy.com . About the Role: We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer Contractor to join our Foundation / SREIQ team and help keep IPSY fast, available, and resilient for millions of beauty community members. You will be at the center of how we detect, respond to, and learn from incidents, partnering with Engineering, Product, and the broader Tech org to protect the critical flows our members rely on every day. This is a hands-on reliability role. You will own observability and alerting in Datadog, participate in our on-call rotation, act as an SRE Partner during incidents, contribute to root cause analyses, and relentlessly automate the toil out of our operations. We are an automation-forward, AI-embracing team: we expect you to lean on modern AI tools to debug faster, draft runbooks and RCAs, and build smarter automation. The SRE Engineer will report to the Infrastructure Engineering Manager and will be fully remote from México or Colombia covering the PST time zone. What You'll Be Doing: Build and maintain observability across our platform in Datadog: dashboards, monitors, APM, log pipelines, and meaningful, low-noise alerting tied to user impact. Define and track SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for specific services, and use them to drive reliability conversations with service owners. Participate in the on-call rotation and serve as an SRE Partner during incidents: triage, classify priority (P1-P6), validate hypotheses, and support resolution with guidance on complex situations. Drive incident response per our framework, meeting target response times (P1 within ~15 minutes), and keeping clear, real-time documentation of status, findings, decisions, and next steps. Manage escalation and alerting through Opsgenie, and post structured updates to incident Slack channels at the expected cadence. Own clean shift handoffs and RCA continuity, ensuring notes are complete and incident ownership transfers cleanly across shifts and time zones. Contribute actively to blameless post-incident reviews (RCAs), identifying root causes and action items to prevent recurrence. Automate toil: build scripts, tooling, and self-healing / automated remediation to reduce manual operational work and speed up recovery. Leverage AI tools (e.g., Clau…