Senior SRE - AI-Driven, Scalable Data Pipelines

Socket.dev; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 207,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our AQI Data SRE team, focused on the SAGE/SPARK production stack. You will define reliability strategies, drive architecture reviews, and lead critical infrastructure projects to ensure scalable, fault-tolerant services.

In this role you will mentor engineers, advance observability and AI-first tooling, and manage incident response with blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages.
• 3 years of experience leading projects.
• 3 years of experience designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Experience with large-scale data processing.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical goal, architectural roadmap, and reliability strategy for AQI Data SRE across the SAGE/SPARK production stack.
• Partner with dev leadership to lead system design reviews, drive backend simplification and resource isolation, and ensure production readiness for flagship Ads launches.
• Architect and lead the implementation of critical infrastructure projects, including data-pipeline resilience, automated rollback/restart platforms, and consolidated observability.
• Mentor and grow engineers on the team, and push for software engineering excellence, AI-first tooling, and SRE best practices; drive the operational maturity handover that helps partner dev teams mature.
• Lead the response to complex production incidents, correlate production signals with customer and business impact, and drive high-impact post-incident architectural improvements and blameless postmortems and participate in a healthy tier 2 oncall rotation for core shared SAGE/SPARK infrastructure.

Job description

Socket.dev is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join our AQI Data SRE team, focused on the SAGE/SPARK production stack. You will define reliability strategies, drive architecture reviews, and lead critical infrastructure projects to ensure scalable, fault-tolerant services.

In this role you will mentor engineers, advance observability and AI-first tooling, and manage incident response with blameless postmortems.