Senior SRE: Reliability Architect & Platform Automation

Drata; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 166,900 - 225,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock equity

Up to 100% employer-paid medical coverage

401(k) plan

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation policy

Job summary

Drata is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join their SRE team in San Francisco. In this role, you'll operate at the intersection of software and systems engineering, focusing on reliability through automation. You'll lead production readiness reviews, define service-level objectives, and contribute to cross-team infrastructure standards. This position requires at least 6 years of experience in SRE or cloud engineering, with strong skills in Terraform and Datadog. The compensation range is $166,900 - $225,900 annually along with equity options.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or building and maintaining scalable services.
• Hands-on experience with Datadog for monitoring and alerting.
• Strong understanding of observability concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead Production Readiness Reviews before new services launch.
• Partner with product engineering to define SLOs and SLIs.
• Build reusable artifacts like SLO templates and alerting standards.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Terraform

Docker

Monitoring with Datadog

Automation in Python

CI/CD pipeline automation

Incident management

Observability concepts

Container orchestration

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS ECS

Kubernetes

Job description

Drata is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join their SRE team in San Francisco. In this role, you'll operate at the intersection of software and systems engineering, focusing on reliability through automation. You'll lead production readiness reviews, define service-level objectives, and contribute to cross-team infrastructure standards. This position requires at least 6 years of experience in SRE or cloud engineering, with strong skills in Terraform and Datadog. The compensation range is $166,900 - $225,900 annually along with equity options.