Reliability Engineer
Sieve · San Francisco, CA · 3 wk ago
On-siteEngineering$150k–$300k/yrFull-time
About the role
We process petabytes of video across thousands of nodes and multiple cloud environments. As we scale, reliability, observability, and security become existential.
Responsibilities
- Work with engineering to design and validate the infrastructure powering PB-scale workloads
- Build and maintain Terraform-managed multi-cloud deployments
- Improve cloud and data security (SSO, IAM, least privilege, auditability)
- Own incident response and harden systems against failure
- Develop CI/CD systems that minimize user error and maximize safety
- Build monitoring + alerting platforms (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, VictoriaMetrics)
- Wrap internal reliability tooling with simple UIs for engineers
Requirements
- 3+ years building internal infrastructure at scale
- Experience on-call for Sev 0 / Sev 1 production incidents (L3 preferred)
- Strong cloud experience (GCP, AWS, Oracle, Cloudflare, etc.)
- Deep Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)
- Familiarity with Argo, Helm, Kustomize, or similar deployment tools
- Experience operating observability systems (Prometheus, OTel, VictoriaMetrics)
- Backend fundamentals in Python, Go, Rust, or C++
- Strong networking + security intuition, including SSO implementation
- High ownership mindset over critical systems
- In-person at our SF HQ
Bonus
- Experience building lightweight internal tooling (APIs, dashboards, Svelte)
- Familiarity with object storage systems (“buckets”)
- Active GitHub or portfolio projects
Benefits
- 401k + Full Health Insurance
- Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner covered and your choice of snacks
- Ubers covered home