Senior SRE: Scale, Reliability & Platform Observability

Sanity; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive stock options program

Comprehensive health plans

Flexible, trust-based environment

Location-based salary

Job summary

Sanity is building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. We seek a seasoned SRE to design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure across GCP and Kubernetes, ensuring high reliability and real-time content processing for global customers.

You will partner with development teams, improve observability, and drive incident response, automation, and deployment best practices to keep our platform fast, secure, and easy to use.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as part of an SRE on-call rotation.
• Experience with managing scalable, highly available cloud-based applications.
• Experience with Kubernetes for orchestrating and scaling containerized apps.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with an observability stack (Prometheus, etc.).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core platform foundations on GCP, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and observability.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot complex distributed systems under high load.
• Ensure observability and analyze stack behavior.
• Contribute to edge, caching, gateway modernization on Fastly.
• Raise reliability with dashboards, alerts, paging, on-call readiness, and incident response.
• Make deployments boring by producing golden paths, readiness checks, and safe rollouts.
• Mentor engineers and elevate technical standards through code reviews and pairing.
• Participate in on-call rotation and ensure smooth on-call handoffs.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Cloud platforms

On-call

Incident response

Networking

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

ElasticSearch

PostgreSQL

NATS

Kong

Fastly

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Sanity is building the future of AI-powered Content Operations. We seek a seasoned SRE to design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure across GCP and Kubernetes, ensuring high reliability and real-time content processing for global customers.

You will partner with development teams, improve observability, and drive incident response, automation, and deployment best practices to keep our platform fast, secure, and easy to use.