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Ironclad

Staff Software Engineer – Site Reliability

Ironclad

. Help set the technical direction for SRE and the cloud platform .

Posted 10/25/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • United StatesLead💰 $210,000 - $235,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates extensive experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on cloud platforms, database management, and automation practices. Proven ability to lead architectural decisions, mentor teams, and enhance reliability and performance across distributed systems.

Highest-signal resume keywords
SRE LeadershipKubernetes OperationsCloud Platform ExpertiseDatabase ManagementInfrastructure as Code

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Hard Skills
TypeScriptPythonKubernetesGCPAWSAzurePostgreSQLMongoDBRedisTerraform
Soft Skills
Clear CommunicationCollaborative ApproachTroubleshooting SkillsMentoring
Tools & Technologies
CI/CDGitOpsCircleCIArgo CDAI Coding Tools
Industry Keywords
Site Reliability EngineeringInfrastructure EngineeringDistributed SystemsCloud Storage ArchitectureDisaster Recovery

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSAzureCloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesMongoDBNoSQLPostgresPythonRedisTerraformTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Help set the technical direction for SRE and the cloud platform
  • Partner across Ironclad to identify needs, prioritize improvements, and build a roadmap for reliability, capacity, and platform capabilities
  • Identify reliability risks and design and deliver changes that reduce risk and prevent recurring failures through production
  • Lead architectural decisions across security, scalability, and performance
  • Document architectural decisions
  • Monitor, tune, and scale relational and NoSQL database systems
  • Improve build, test, deploy, monitoring, and recovery processes through automation
  • Strengthen SRE practices around SLOs, incident response, postmortems, and capacity planning
  • Design and test backup, recovery, and disaster recovery capabilities
  • Strengthen data durability across storage and distributed systems
  • Participate in the SRE on-call rotation, including outside-business-hours coverage
  • Respond to production incidents and lead complex investigations
  • Improve alerting, runbooks, and automation to reduce recurring incidents and on-call toil
  • Mentor engineers and review designs and code
  • Share knowledge and help the team grow
  • Partner with product engineering, security, support, and customer-facing teams
  • Join customer escalations when needed and investigate issues across unfamiliar product areas
  • Design or operate multi-region systems
  • Lead large-scale database, cluster, or service migrations with minimal downtime

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering, including experience as a technical lead for business-critical systems
  • 5+ years developing and maintaining production software in TypeScript or Python, including tools and services
  • Deep experience operating Kubernetes in production, including troubleshooting scheduling, networking, and resource issues at scale
  • Deep hands-on experience with GCP, AWS, or Azure; GCP experience is preferred
  • Production experience with both relational and NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, or Redis, including query and index tuning, replication, monitoring, and scaling under load
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and GitOps tooling, such as Terraform or Pulumi, CircleCI, and Argo CD
  • Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud storage architecture, and backup and recovery
  • Experience using AI coding tools to improve engineering workflows, with sound judgment about their use and output validation
  • Strong troubleshooting skills, including moving from vague symptoms to root causes under pressure
  • Clear written and verbal communication, including design documents and incident writeups
  • Track record of leading through influence and helping unmanaged teams adopt better practices
  • Collaborative approach
  • Must be based within a commutable distance of the listed office and willing to commute into the office two days a week
  • Must be authorized to work lawfully in the United States
  • Must be willing to participate in SRE on-call coverage outside business hours

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Company bonus
  • Equity awards, including a new hire grant and opportunities for additional awards
  • 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision)
  • 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options
  • Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
  • Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
  • Paid time off
  • Monthly wellbeing stipend
  • Monthly hybrid work stipend
  • Monthly cell phone stipend, if applicable
  • Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
  • Pre-tax commuter benefits
  • 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match
  • Regular team events
  • Career growth and development opportunities