Cognition

Site Reliability Engineer

Cognition
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28 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$260k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and own SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for Devin and Windsurf.
  • Build monitoring, alerting, and observability systems for service health.
  • Lead incident response and on-call operations, including detection, triage, mitigation, resolution, and postmortems.
  • Create runbooks and tooling to make on-call sustainable and effective.
  • Own deployment pipelines, release infrastructure, and internal developer tooling.
  • Manage reproducible, auditable, version-controlled cloud environments through infrastructure as code.
  • Plan capacity, forecast resource needs, and improve system performance before users are affected.
  • Identify and remediate infrastructure misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and access failures.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to incorporate reliability into system architecture and development.
  • Reduce operational toil through systematic automation.

Requirements

  • Deep experience running production systems at scale, including SLOs, error budgets, on-call rotations, and incident command.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience writing production code.
  • Proficiency with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Kubernetes; and Terraform or an equivalent infrastructure-as-code tool.
  • Experience building and owning CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure for fast-moving product teams.
  • Strong observability skills, including system instrumentation, dashboard creation, and actionable alert design.
  • Demonstrated success reducing toil through automation.
  • Ability to own incidents end to end and conduct effective postmortems.
  • Product empathy and understanding of reliability from the user’s perspective.
  • Experience with developer-facing products or platforms is a strong plus.

Benefits

  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee and dependents.
  • Company-matched 401(k).
  • Private chef, cozy slippers, endless snacks, and other perks.
  • Significant early-stage equity is offered in addition to base salary.

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
Cognition

About Cognition

51-200 employees

Makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We’re building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals.

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