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Technical Leader, SIte Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, California, USFull-time$214k2026-09-08 → 2026-11-10

Core

Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of a Kubernetes platform across cloud and on-premises environments to support mission-critical workloads at scale.

Role type

Senior IC Site Reliability Engineer (Platform Engineering)

Builds

Cloud-native infrastructure, automation, observability, and self-service capabilities for thousands of developers.

Domain

Cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, distributed systems

Required skills

Kubernetes platform operations, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), GitOps (ArgoCD), SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, incident management), Go/Python/Ruby, networking architectures (CNI, service mesh), cross-organizational leadership

Preferred skills

Microservices migration, foundational networking concepts (switching, routing, Wi-Fi, IoT), advanced observability strategies, toil reduction automation

Technologies

Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, AWS, Azure, GCP, Go, Python, Ruby

Responsibilities

Lead design and optimization of Kubernetes platform capabilities; drive technical initiatives for reliability, security, and scalability; partner with engineering and security teams on platform roadmaps; provide technical leadership during major incidents and architecture reviews; mentor senior engineers and raise the engineering bar.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities