Staff Site Reliability Engineer

16 days ago

Remote, United States or Santa Monica, CA, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$230k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

Define the technical vision and roadmap for reliability, availability, scalability, and operational readiness, including service-level objectives.
Design and implement resilient cloud architecture, deployment systems, networking, compute, storage, and shared infrastructure.
Build cohesive observability through metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and alerting.
Establish incident management, on-call, postmortem, and disaster recovery practices and lead complex incident response.
Create automation and internal tooling for deployment workflows, capacity management, infrastructure provisioning, production diagnostics, and other operational toil.
Partner with software, data, and AI engineers to improve system design, production readiness, and failure handling.
Support infrastructure security, access controls, audit trails, and compliance requirements for sensitive healthcare and financial data.
Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, mentoring, and guidance on infrastructure and operational engineering practices.

8+ years of experience in site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or operating large-scale production systems.
Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, containers, orchestration, infrastructure as code, and modern deployment practices.
Experience designing, building, and operating highly available systems in a fast-growing production environment.
Strong understanding of observability, service-level objectives, capacity planning, incident management, disaster recovery, and performance engineering.
Hands-on ability to debug complex issues across application, infrastructure, network, and data layers.
Experience creating automation and internal tooling that reduces operational toil and improves developer productivity.
Ability to influence architecture and engineering practices across teams without formal authority.
Strong communication skills and pragmatic judgment when balancing reliability, delivery speed, complexity, and cost.
Extra credit for experience with healthcare, financial, or other regulated data; HIPAA, PHI, SOC 2, data privacy, auditability, and security controls; production data-intensive, AI, or machine learning systems; multi-region architecture; high-volume asynchronous workflows; complex distributed processing; or introducing SRE practices at an early-stage or high-growth company.

Competitive compensation including equity, full health, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) retirement savings plan, flexible time off, and company-wide connection and events.
Primarily hires around Los Angeles and New York hubs, with remote and hybrid flexibility varying by role and team.
Employment requires authorization to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

1-10 employees