4 months ago
Base Salary
$200k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability and scalability of production systems handling growing social-data volumes and real-time AI workloads.
- Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets and build observability, alerting, and on-call practices.
- Lead incident response and blameless postmortems and implement systemic improvements.
- Improve infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and capacity planning at scale.
- 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
- 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 cloud infrastructure such as AWS and infrastructure-as-code tooling.
- Solid programming skills for automation, tooling, and operational services.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving startup environment with high ownership and autonomy.
- Bonus: experience establishing or maturing an SRE practice at an early-stage or rapidly scaling company.
- Bonus: familiarity with AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, or Temporal.
- Bonus: background in capacity planning, performance engineering, or cost optimization at scale.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and early equity.
- Health, vision, dental, and 401(k) match benefits.
- ClassPass membership for fitness and wellness classes.
- Hybrid schedule with 4 days in the office and 3 remote flex days per quarter after the first 3 months.
- $1,000/month housing stipend for living near the office.
- $50/month mobile stipend and commuter benefits, including a train stipend or Palo Alto parking reimbursement.
- Free lunch in the office.
- Career growth opportunities as the company scales.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Nectar
Nectar builds an AI-native platform for brands to run community, creator, and social commerce programs across major social channels. Its software combines social intelligence with agentic workflows to help retail and e-commerce teams deepen engagement and drive sales, typically sold as SaaS. The privately held company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, and raised a Series A in 2026.