Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)

At Selective, we don't just insure uniquely, we employ uniqueness.

Selective is a midsized U.S. domestic property and casualty insurance company with a history of strong, consistent financial performance for nearly 100 years. Selective's unique position as both a leading insurance group and an employer of choice is recognized in a wide variety of awards and honors, including listing in Forbes Best Midsize Employers in 2024 and certification as a Great Place to Work in 2024 for the fifth consecutive year.

Employees are empowered and encouraged to Be Uniquely You by being their true, unique selves and contributing their diverse talents, experiences, and perspectives to our shared success. Together, we are a high-performing team working to serve our customers responsibly by helping to mitigate loss, keep them safe, and restore their lives and businesses after an insured loss occurs.

Selective Insurance is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of scalable, resilient, and secure infrastructure systems. This role requires deep expertise in systems engineering, infrastructure automation, and reliability practices, with a strong focus performance optimization.

As a technical leader, the SRE will collaborate closely with architecture and development teams to ensure solutions align with SRE principles and operational excellence. Also drive continuous improvements in system resilience, observability, security, and automation, leveraging advanced data analytics and enhance service delivery and reliability.

The SRE will also serve as a trusted advisor across the organization, offering expert-level consulting in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and incident response. A strong understanding of business-critical applications and alignment with organizational goals is essential, along with a commitment to compliance with legal, regulatory, and security standards

• Define and measure service reliability through SLIs, SLOs for various application in Selective
• Leverages logs, traces, and metrics to extract actionable insights, proactively identify system anomalies, and drive continuous improvements in system health, performance, and reliability.
• Perform capacity planning, conduct performance profiling, and execute system tuning to support scalability, enhance reliability, and optimize system performance across distributed environments.
• Collaborate with Agile teams to ensure new features meet reliability and performance standards
• Participate in incident response, and postmortem analysis to drive continuous improvement
• Implement and maintain observability tools
• Ensure compliance with security, legal, and regulatory requirements
• Design, develop, and maintain dashboards to monitor and visualize application performance, enabling real-time insights and proactive issue resolution

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering roles.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools
• College degree Computer Science, or other related field preferred.

Selective Insurance offers a total rewards package that includes a competitive base salary, incentive plan eligibility at all levels, and a wide array of benefits designed to help you and your family stay healthy, achieve your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life. These benefits include comprehensive health care plans, retirement savings plan with company match, discounted Employee Stock Purchase Program, tuition assistance and reimbursement programs, and paid time off plans. Additional details about our total rewards package will be provided during the recruiting process.

The actual base salary is based on geographic location, and the range is representative of salaries for this role throughout Selective's footprint. Additional considerations include relevant education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance, and business needs.

Selective is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. That means we respect and value every individual's unique opinions, beliefs, abilities, and perspectives. We are committed to promoting a welcoming culture that celebrates diverse talent, individual identity, different points of view and experiences - and empowers employees to contribute new ideas that support our continued and growing success. Building a highly engaged team is one of our core strategic imperatives, which we believe is enhanced by diversity, equity, and inclusion. We expect and encourage all employees and all of our business partners to embrace, practice, and monitor the attitudes, values, and goals of acceptance; address biases; and foster diversity of viewpoints and opinions.