Staff Site Reliability Engineer

. Own and evolve the engineering-wide SRE strategy, operating model, and reliability standards .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesLead💰 $199,750 - $270,000 per yearWebsite

Tools & technologies

AWSDistributed SystemsGrafanaKubernetesPythonTerraform

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and evolve the engineering-wide SRE strategy, operating model, and reliability standards
Align reliability standards with customer impact, business priorities, and risk
Lead cross-functional alignment across Infrastructure, product, service, security, and business stakeholders
Improve reliability, observability, incident response, and operational readiness across multiple teams
Establish organization-wide service ownership, meaningful SLIs and SLOs, and error budgets for critical customer paths and services
Define and drive adoption of observability standards across pipelines and platform components
Set standards for dashboards, actionable alerting, runbooks, and escalation paths
Drive complex cross-functional reliability initiatives end to end
Raise engineering standards for incident management, incident command, on-call health, post-incident learning, and recovery readiness
Shape the technical direction, operating model, and growth path of the SRE function
Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Help design a sustainable, appropriately staffed, and continuously improved on-call model

What you’ll need

Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems in production environments
Deep knowledge of reliability engineering, observability, incident management, and production operations
Demonstrated ability to turn reliability knowledge into standards and practices adopted by others
Experience establishing SLIs, SLOs, actionable alerts, observability, and service ownership
Backend experience building systems and automation that reduce operational toil, strengthen safeguards, and improve operational efficiency
Experience leading high-severity incidents and improving incident response programs
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including technical designs, runbooks, postmortems, and operational documentation
Experience with Python and Terraform, or equivalent automation and infrastructure-as-code tools
Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, or equivalent platforms
Experience operating production services in AWS and Kubernetes
Experience with CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or GitOps workflows
Participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation
Legally authorized to work in the United States
Must answer whether employment visa sponsorship is required

Comp & perks