Senior SRE: Build Scalable, Reliable Cloud Platforms

Candidate; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Glean is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability and scalability of its production services. In this hands-on role, you will design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure, improve SLOs, and drive blameless learning from production incidents.

You will automate repetitive work, build tooling, and enhance deployment, monitoring, and on-call workflows to scale while delivering a reliable customer experience across a hybrid cloud environment in Mountain

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years in a senior Site Reliability Engineering role, managing cloud-based services and infrastructure.
• 5+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
• 3+ years leading projects and designing distributed systems running in Cloud.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure.
• Practical experience with containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes; IaC tools like Terraform.
• Solid understanding of networking, security principles, and best SRE practices.
• Proficiency in using monitoring and alerting tools to detect and respond to issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across engineering teams to improve reliability.
• Ensure high availability by designing resilient cloud architectures and monitoring performance.
• Participate in on-call rotation and drive blameless postmortems to optimize processes.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tooling to streamline deployment and monitoring.
• Optimize performance, scalability, and cost of cloud infrastructure and applications.
• Collaborate with security engineers to meet security standards and policies.
• Design advanced monitoring and alerting systems with dashboards and playbooks for production.
• Contribute to system design reviews and provide SRE input throughout the software lifecycle.

Skills

Leadership

Distributed systems

Monitoring & alerting

On-call / incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GoogleCloudPlatform / AWS / Azure

Job description

Glean is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen the reliability and scalability of its production services. In this hands-on role, you will design, build, and operate resilient cloud infrastructure, improve SLOs, and drive blameless learning from production incidents.

You will automate repetitive work, build tooling, and enhance deployment, monitoring, and on-call workflows to scale while delivering a reliable customer experience across a hybrid cloud environment in Mountain