Job: Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Responsibilities
As our Staff SRE, you'll be the primary expert responsible for our entire compute ecosystem. Your key responsibilities will include:
As a Staff SRE, you'll operate at the highest level of technical expertise and influence. You won't just solve problems; you'll prevent them at a fundamental level across organizational boundaries.
Required Qualifications
Location: San Francisco, CA
Job Responsibilities
As our Staff SRE, you'll be the primary expert responsible for our entire compute ecosystem. Your key responsibilities will include:
As a Staff SRE, you'll operate at the highest level of technical expertise and influence. You won't just solve problems; you'll prevent them at a fundamental level across organizational boundaries.
- Design, implement, and lead large-scale, cross-functional projects to improve the reliability, performance, and efficiency of our core services and infrastructure (10× impact).
- Drive the reduction of toil by developing and deploying sophisticated automation tools and frameworks, championing the "everything as code" philosophy.
- Serve as a technical escalation point for critical incidents, perform deep-dive root cause analyses (RCAs), and implement robust corrective measures to prevent recurrence.
- Define and implement SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets for critical services. Enhance our monitoring, logging, and tracing systems to provide comprehensive visibility into system health.
- Set the technical direction and best practices for the entire SRE and engineering organization. Mentor mid-level and senior engineers on design patterns, operational rigor, and reliability principles.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of progressive experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a closely related role.
- Expert-level proficiency with AWS, including networking, compute, and storage.
- Deep expertise in Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem.
- Fluency in at least one major scripting/programming language for automation and tooling (e.g., Python, Go, or Java).
- Solid experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Datadog)
- Proven ability to design and implement robust, highly available distributed systems.
- Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform.
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of explaining complex technical issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience implementing Service Mesh technologies (e.g., Istio, Linkerd).
- A strong understanding of security principles and practices in a cloud environment.
- Certifications such as CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) or CKAD (Certified Kubernetes Application Developer).
Staff Site Reliability Engineer in san francisco at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and onsite.