Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Prosum; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 128,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Prosumm? No, Prosum is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen reliability, scalability, and operational readiness of critical services in a hybrid environment.

You will lead reliability initiatives across CI/CD, IaC, monitoring, and incident response, partnering with software and platform teams to reduce latency and outages. The role requires 5–8 years of SRE/DevOps experience, strong scripting and cloud expertise (AWS preferred), and a collaborative, data-driven

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of relevant experience in SRE, DevOps, or related fields
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, monitoring, and observability
• Experience with public cloud technologies, preferably AWS

Responsibilities

• Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps practices to improve reliability and performance
• Define and improve SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, and service health metrics
• Enhance observability with monitoring, logging, tracing, and dashboards
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, and post-incident reviews
• Contribute to CI/CD, IaC, automation, testing, and capacity management
• Collaborate with software engineers to embed reliability throughout the lifecycle

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud/Platform Engineering

DevOps

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Containers

Kubernetes

Job description

## Sr. Site Reliability Engineer**San Francisco,CAxxxxx**Employment Type:PermJob Number: 25979Remote Options: Hybrid## Job DescriptionSenior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) **Location:** Scottsdale, AZ | Chicago, IL | San Francisco, CA | New York, NY **Employment Type:** Full-Time **Work Arrangement:** Hybrid (location dependent) Position Overview We are seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help improve the reliability, scalability, resilience, and operational performance of critical production services. This individual will apply software engineering, systems engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to ensure that reliability, observability, performance, and operational readiness are incorporated throughout the software development lifecycle. The Senior SRE will work closely with Software Engineering and cross-functional technology teams to identify systemic reliability risks, improve production environments, and drive technical solutions that support highly available and scalable systems. This role requires the ability to independently lead reliability initiatives, influence engineering decisions, and take ownership of broader service reliability outcomes. Key Responsibilities* Apply software engineering, automation, and DevOps principles to continuously improve how services are developed, tested, deployed, monitored, operated, and recovered.* Use data, experimentation, and technical analysis to identify reliability risks, validate assumptions, and guide engineering decisions.* Define, implement, and improve Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and other service-health metrics.* Enhance observability through monitoring, logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, dashboards, and service-health instrumentation.* Drive continuous improvements across CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), automation, testing, deployment practices, incident response, capacity management, and system resilience.* Identify recurring production issues and translate operational findings into improvements in application code, architecture, tooling, automation, and engineering practices.* Partner with Software Engineering teams to integrate reliability, scalability, performance, observability, recoverability, and operational readiness throughout the development lifecycle.* Participate in and lead incident response, troubleshooting, service restoration, and post-incident reviews.* Participate in an on-call rotation for supported production services.* Improve on-call effectiveness through automation, monitoring, runbooks, incident analysis, and the elimination of recurring operational issues.* Reduce manual processes and operational overhead through reusable automation, tooling, and improved engineering practices.Minimum Qualifications* Typically 5–8 years of relevant professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud/Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or a related technical discipline.* Experience with software development or scripting using one or more modern programming languages.* Strong understanding of software engineering principles, distributed systems, production troubleshooting, automation, and observability.* Experience working with public cloud technologies and architectures, preferably AWS.* Knowledge of infrastructure, networking, Linux/Unix environments, and modern application architectures.* Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.Preferred Qualifications* Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud platform such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).* Experience developing, deploying, operating, or improving highly available production software and distributed systems.* Familiarity with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containers, orchestration platforms, monitoring, alerting, observability, and software delivery automation.* Experience with SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident management, performance analysis, capacity management, resilience testing, disaster recovery, or operational readiness.* Experience developing reusable automation, tooling, platforms, and engineering practices that improve operational efficiency.* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.Compensation The anticipated annual base salary range is dependent on geographic location: * **Phoenix, AZ / Chicago, IL:** $106,000 – $130,000* **San Francisco, CA:** $128,000 – $156,000 Additional compensation may include discretionary incentive opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package. Additional Information* This is a full-time opportunity with a hybrid work arrangement for designated office locations.* Candidates must be independently authorized to work in the United States for any employer at the time of hire. Employment visa sponsorship is not available.* The position requires participation in an on-call rotation supporting production services.* Employment consideration is based on qualifications, experience, and demonstrated ability, in accordance with applicable equal employment opportunity laws.