Senior SRE — Scalable Infra, Observability, Hybrid

Nectar; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, dental benefits + 401K

Hybrid schedule

Housing stipend

Mobile stipend

Commuter benefits

Free lunch in Palo Alto

Job summary

Nectar is seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the production systems powering our platform. You will manage high-volume data ingestion pipelines and real-time AI agents, setting the foundation for reliability as we scale.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, implement robust observability and on-call practices, lead incident response, and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurrence while balancing velocity and cost.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating production systems as an SRE or similar role.
• Experience with cloud infra and IaC tooling.
• Strong programming skills for automation and tooling.
• Comfort in fast-moving startups with high ownership.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability and scalability of production systems for real-time AI workloads.
• Define SLOs/SLIs and error budgets; build observability and on-call practices.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems, driving systemic improvements.
• Improve performance, cost efficiency, and capacity planning as the platform scales.
• Harden IaC, deployments, and CI/CD pipelines for resilience.
• Collaborate with teams to embed reliability in system design.

Skills

SRE experience

Cloud infrastructure

IaC tooling

Automation programming

On-call/resilience

Startup environment

Tools

AWS

Pulumi

Postgres

ClickHouse

Temporal

Job description

Nectar is seeking a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the production systems powering our platform. You will manage high-volume data ingestion pipelines and real-time AI agents, setting the foundation for reliability as we scale.

You will define SLOs/SLIs, implement robust observability and on-call practices, lead incident response, and drive systemic improvements to prevent recurrence while balancing velocity and cost.