Nectar

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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3 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$200k - $400k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own the reliability and scalability of production systems handling growing social data volumes and real-time AI workloads.
  • Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
  • Build observability, alerting, and on-call practices.
  • Lead incident response and blameless postmortems and implement systemic improvements.
  • Improve performance, cost efficiency, and capacity planning across cloud infrastructure.
  • Harden infrastructure-as-code, deployment, and CI/CD pipelines for resilience and repeatability.
  • Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability into system design and raise operational standards.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience operating production systems as an SRE, infrastructure engineer, or platform engineer.
  • Experience scaling databases, data infrastructure, or complex production platforms under significant load.
  • Hands-on expertise with AWS or similar cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  • Strong programming skills for automation, tooling, and operational services.
  • Comfort working in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and autonomy.
  • Experience establishing or maturing an SRE practice at an early-stage or rapidly scaling company is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, or Temporal is a bonus.
  • Background in capacity planning, performance engineering, or cost optimization at scale is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Health, vision, and dental benefits with a 401(k) match.
  • Free lunch in Palo Alto.
  • Competitive compensation and early equity.
  • Career growth opportunities as the company scales.
  • Exposure to AI tooling and the opportunity to shape AI-native marketing infrastructure.

Tech Stack

AWSClickHousePostgreSQL

Categories

Site Reliability
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