Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location: On-site in San Francisco, California, United States

Salary benchmark: $210K–$240K annually

Company

A technology company building a core platform for real-time analytics, machine learning workloads, and enterprise use cases.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure for real-time analytics and machine learning workloads.
• Improve reliability and performance through automation, observability, capacity planning, and proactive operations.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, rollback mechanisms, and configuration management.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, SLOs, runbooks, incident response, and on-call operations.
• Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to improve platform performance and reliability.
• Drive security, compliance, operational readiness, post-incident analysis, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering.
• 5+ years of experience with datacenter operations and/or systems and network administration.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Linux systems, networking, SSH, shell scripting, and Linux command-line tools.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure as code using Terraform or Ansible, with programming and scripting skills in Bash and/or Python.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, or OpenTelemetry.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally.

Nice to have

• Experience with AWS and other cloud or managed services.
• Experience supporting data-intensive platforms using Spark, Airflow, or Kafka.
• Familiarity with cloud-native security practices and infrastructure in SOC 2 or other high-compliance environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership of mission-critical infrastructure supporting enterprise problems.
• Opportunity to influence platform scaling from deployment through incident management.
• Equity program designed to give new hires ownership.
• Engineering culture centered on curiosity, accountability, impact, and high performance.
• Transparent, market-based, and data-driven compensation philosophy.