Site Reliability Engineer

StartupAdvantage; Daly City (CA); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

StartupAdvantage in Daly City, CA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own the middle of hybrid projects, translate requirements into actionable work, and help ship features end-to-end.

The role offers a $88,000-$126,000 annual salary, mentorship, and a clear path from junior to lead, with opportunities to stress-test networks, refactor legacy code, and reduce technical debt.

Join a customer-obsessed team that values diverse perspectives and steady growth.

Qualifications

• 1+ years operating in a Site Reliability Engineer role.
• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a hybrid project.
• Familiarity with collaborating in a customer-obsessed hybrid team.

Responsibilities

• Translate fiercely-supportive business requirements into technical specifications and tasks.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end.
• Lead Analytical Thinking design reviews to catch costly mistakes before Daly City, CA builds them.
• Build the Negotiation tooling that makes every other Daly City engineer faster.
• Deliver junior-quality features within the $88,000 - $126,000 Site Reliability Engineer mandate.
• Stress-test Networking systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked.
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time.

Skills

1+ years SRE experience

Hybrid project ownership

Collaboration with product/design

Technical debt reduction

Job description

If you've ever rewritten a function three times because the second version still bothered you, our Site Reliability Engineer opening in Daly City, CA will feel like home. What you're really weighing is $88,000 - $126,000 against 1 years, with technology ownership and StartupAdvantage growth tipping the scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate fiercely-supportive business requirements into technical specifications and tasks
• Collaborate with product and design teams to ship features end to end
• Lead Analytical Thinking design reviews that catch the costly mistakes before Daly City, CA builds them
• Build the Negotiation tooling that makes every other Daly City engineer faster
• Deliver junior-quality features within the $88,000 - $126,000 Site Reliability Engineer mandate
• Stress-test Networking systems until they bend, then harden where they cracked
• Profile and refactor legacy code to reduce technical debt over time

What You'll Bring

• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a hybrid project
• Familiarity with the rhythms of a customer-obsessed hybrid team
• Roughly 1+ years operating in a similar Site Reliability Engineer position
• Comfort with a StartupAdvantage pace that rarely sits still

Somewhere between a startup and an institution, StartupAdvantage has spent years perfecting Analytical Thinking for clients all over Daly City, CA. Diverse perspectives make our technology work sharper, and we deliberately seek them out.

Pay starts strong at $88,000 - $126,000, mentorship runs deep, and the road from junior to lead is paved with real benefits.

This role is in active recruitment, with a target start date just ahead.