Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Early Warning

. Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeUnited StatesLead💰 $149,000 - $198,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsGrafanaHadoopHBaseJavaKafkaLinuxPythonSplunkSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQLUnix

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to improve how services are built, tested, deployed, observed, operated, and recovered
Use data, experimentation, and engineering analysis to identify reliability risks and guide technical decisions
Define and improve SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and service-health measures
Improve observability through metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation
Drive improvements across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing, incident response, capacity management, resilience, and operational readiness
Identify systemic production issues and translate operational experience into improvements in code, architecture, automation, tooling, and engineering practices
Partner with Software Engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle
Participate in or lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and blameless post-incident learning
Provide technical leadership and escalation support for complex production incidents across multiple services and teams
Reduce operational toil through software, automation, reusable patterns, and improved engineering practices
Develop reusable solutions, tooling, and patterns that multiply engineering capability across teams
Drive cross-team technical decisions without formal authority
Mentor engineers and contribute to sustainable engineering capability

Requirements

What you’ll need

Typically 8+ years of relevant professional experience in Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, Architecture where applicable, or a comparable technical discipline
Experience with software development or scripting using Python, SQL, Shell, Java, and Spring Boot
Experience with software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability appropriate to the level
Experience with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS, along with infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix, and modern application architectures
Demonstrated analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills
Experience with observability technologies such as Splunk, AppDynamics, OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb, and Grafana
Proficiency in Linux and Cloudera Manager
Experience monitoring and optimizing performance in clustered environments, including HBase, Kafka, Solr, and Cloudera-managed Hadoop clusters
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Benefits

Comp & perks

Discretionary incentive plan
Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans
Company contributions to Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health, and dependent care expenses
401(k) retirement plan with 100% company Safe Harbor Match on the first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility
Flexible Time Off for exempt (salaried) employees
Generous PTO for non-exempt (hourly) employees
11 paid company holidays
Paid volunteer day
12 weeks of paid parental leave
Maven Family Planning support, including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work