Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

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11m ago • Remote

Senior

Remote

232,500 - 325,500 USD/yr

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Quick Facts

  • Role: Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Site Experience)

  • Work model: Fully remote

Description

Lead reliability engineering initiatives for critical user-facing systems at internet scale. You will partner with engineering leadership to identify foundational operational challenges, define long-term strategies, and lead complex programs that deliver durable reliability improvements. The role spans web, mobile, APIs, feeds, media delivery, search, messaging, and real-time systems.

Responsibilities

  • Advance the organization’s reliability strategy across teams and systems

  • Apply deep expertise to operate and evolve reliability practices for global-scale platforms

  • Lead cross-organizational programs improving reliability, scale, and performance for user experience

  • Set and guide the long-term reliability roadmap and align investments to build resilience and enable innovation

  • Own and grow cross-functional partnerships across product and infrastructure engineering

  • Define and champion reliability engineering best practices, including SLIs/SLOs, capacity management, release engineering, and operational maturity

  • Mentor and elevate engineers through technical leadership and shared learning

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles

  • Proven ability to lead complex, cross-organizational engineering programs from design through launch

  • Experience evolving company-wide reliability strategy and guiding long-term roadmaps and investments

  • Ability to build sustained partnerships with engineering leadership, product, and infrastructure teams

  • Deep knowledge of reliable and resilient systems design with experience driving organizational adoption

  • Expertise diagnosing complex failures across applications, infrastructure, and networking and improving observability

  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and operational judgment

  • Demonstrated record of developing engineers at every level and raising engineering standards

Benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits and income replacement programs

  • 401(k) with employer match

  • Global benefits including workspace support and professional development

  • Family planning support and gender-affirming care

  • Mental health and coaching benefits

  • Flexible vacation and paid volunteer time off

  • Generous paid parental leave

  • Pay transparency; base salary range: $232,500–$325,500 USD

  • Equity in the form of restricted stock units; potential commission depending on role

Pay Transparency & Interview Data Use

  • In select roles/locations, interviews may be recorded, transcribed, and summarized by AI; candidates can opt out prior to scheduled interviews.

  • Personal information may be collected for application evaluation, and recordings are deleted promptly after a hiring decision.

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