Staff Site Reliability Engineer
ID.me · San Francisco Bay Area · 5 days ago
On-siteEngineering$218k–$260k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Execute on the transformation from monolith to scalable microservices (API/Platform focus).
- Drive initiatives to continually improve reliability, with a deep understanding of the implications of each “9.”
- Architect systems and write code that enables application teams to adopt best practices by default—not by instruction.
- Integrate and unify diverse infrastructure components into a cohesive, scalable platform within a massive tech stack.
- Design observability, reliability, and CI/CD frameworks to support growth and operational excellence at scale.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, application, and integration teams to align infrastructure direction with business goals.
- Provide technical leadership to shift the team from reactive support to a proactive, strategic function.
- Mentor and guide a team of 6 engineers while shaping the direction of infrastructure engineering.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study.
- At least 10 years of hands-on coding experience in building internal platforms/tools to support developer experience and operational best practices.
- At least 5 years of experience in cloud platforms—GCP preferred, AWS acceptable; cloud engineering background required.
Qualifications
- Proven experience scaling infrastructure in environments with many thousands of nodes.
- Track record of leading architectural shifts from monolithic systems to microservices in large-scale environments.
- Deep knowledge of reliability engineering and high-availability systems; able to articulate the impact of increasing the number of 9s.
- Strong understanding of first-party infrastructure integration and unifying disparate systems.
- Familiarity with observability, CI/CD tooling, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience at large-scale tech companies (Google, Meta, Amazon, etc.) or equivalent environments highly preferred.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to drive infrastructure alignment across engineering orgs.
Skills
- Experience with cloud platforms—GCP preferred, AWS acceptable.
- Experience with microservices architecture.
- Experience with observability and CI/CD tooling.
- Experience with large-scale infrastructure management.
- Experience with reliability engineering and high-availability systems.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts).
- Basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Parenthood leave.
- Ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays.
- Short and long-term disability insurance.
- Accident and critical illness insurance.
- Referral bonus policy.
- Employee assistance program.
- Pet insurance.
- Travel assistant program.
- Wellbeing and childcare discounts.
- Benefit advocates.
- Learning and development benefit.
Pay
Mountain View, CA: $217,565—$260,000 USD
Schedule
Full-time, in-office five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL.