Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Requirements

• 5 or more years of DevOps or SRE experience deploying and operating commercial SaaS platforms on public cloud infrastructure, AWS preferred.
• Expert knowledge with Linux, shell, containerization, Kubernetes, IaC (terraform preferred), monitoring, logging, and APM tools.
• Proven ability to take initiative and drive impactful projects to completion efficiently and independently.
• Comfort with ambiguity, pace, and frequent pivots inherent in a startup environment, with a track record of creating clarity for teams.
• Experience introducing and integrating AI tools/processes into development and operation workflows.
• Demonstrated skill in setting, iterating on, and measuring KPIs to ensure ongoing performance, reliability and efficiency.
• Experience with network/application security and compliance is a plus.

Qualifications

Dead serious about performance, scalability, and reliability (PSR): You care deeply about how systems behave in the real world and sweat the details around latency, uptime, and scale.

Systems engineering & infrastructure expertise: You’ve spent real time building and running distributed systems and know your way around cloud infrastructure, networks, and operating systems.

Automation, automation, automation: If something is repetitive or error-prone, your first instinct is to automate it and make it disappear.

Operating in ambiguity & high-growth environments: You’re comfortable making good calls without perfect information and adapting as the system and company grow fast.

Dependable, trustworthy: People trust you to own problems, show up when things are broken, and follow through.

Skills

You are passionate about building scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

Benefits

At Instrumental, protecting company and customer information is a shared responsibility. Employees are expected to comply with company engineering, security, access control, and privacy policies, and promptly report suspected security incidents or policy violations.

Pay

The following is a representative annual base salary range for this position within the Bay Area: $175-229k.

Schedule

We consider candidates at multiple levels for this role.