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Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Observability

San Francisco, California, USFull-time$168k2026-10-12 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, build, and operate enterprise observability platforms for logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting across large-scale cloud infrastructure to improve visibility and reduce incident resolution time.

Role type

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Observability)

Builds

Enterprise observability platforms, telemetry pipelines, dashboards, and alerting systems for cloud infrastructure.

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Observability / SRE

Required skills

Splunk Enterprise/Cloud administration, Elasticsearch/ELK cluster management, distributed tracing (Tempo/OpenTelemetry), Prometheus/Grafana/Kafka, Terraform, Python/Go/Bash scripting, Linux networking, incident response, capacity planning.

Preferred skills

Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Ansible, CI/CD, SLO/SLI management, FedRAMP compliance.

Technologies

Splunk, Elasticsearch, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Prometheus, Terraform, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Python, Go, Bash

Responsibilities

Design and deploy observability platforms; maintain Splunk and Elasticsearch infrastructure; build telemetry pipelines; develop dashboards and alerts; automate infrastructure provisioning; participate in on-call rotation and incident response; partner with engineering teams to improve reliability.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC