Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
• Focus: Reliability for user experience systems (web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, real-time)

Description

Lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. Partner with product and infrastructure teams to improve availability, latency, scalability, and operational excellence across API, content delivery, feed generation, search, and real-time experiences. Drive cross-functional reliability projects using automation, SLOs, observability, and engineering best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead reliability engineering for user experience systems and own execution from design through launch.
• Architect for scale by improving redundancy, graceful degradation, traffic management, and capacity planning.
• Reduce operational risk by identifying systemic risks and building proactive mitigation strategies.
• Build automated solutions for deployment safety, incident response, remediation workflows, and reliability guardrails.
• Define and champion reliability engineering standards (SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, operational maturity).
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to engineers to raise the operational excellence bar.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or related roles operating large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience supporting high-traffic, user-facing production environments.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, Linux systems, and/or cloud-native architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar.
• Observability expertise across metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting.
• Experience improving reliability via SLOs, automation, incident management, and performance optimization.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex issues across applications, infrastructure, networking, and services.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to influence technical direction across teams.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs
• 401(k) with employer match
• Global benefit programs (workspace, professional development, caregiving support)
• Family planning support and gender-affirming care
• Mental health & coaching benefits
• Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off
• Generous paid parental leave
• Pay transparency: base salary range $190,800–$267,100 (US) and potential equity (RSUs) and commission depending on role