Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Government

sentinellabs; United States; Remote; USD 156,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Medical/dental/vision coverage

401(k) match

Wellness perks

Job summary

Sentinel Labs is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join a dedicated Government SRE team responsible for the reliability of regulated cloud environments and compliant deployments. U.S.

citizenship and residence in the United States with potential background checks up to Secret clearance are required. The role focuses on balancing FedRAMP-style obligations with delivering a consistent software experience comparable to commercial environments, driving incidents, automation, and release

Qualifications

• 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering for SaaS, including 4+ years operating at large scale.
• 2+ years of production experience with a container orchestration system, including canary/blue-green deployments.
• Hands-on with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry, plus incident management processes.
• Experience supporting FedRAMP, security, risk management, and compliance for software releases.
• Experience with government agencies or highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with testing strategies and automation in large-scale environments.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous software delivery, resolve production incidents, run post-mortems, and build automation for deployment, self-testing, and alerting.
• Lead incident management for production issues, ensuring rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and follow-up preventative actions.
• Improve the observability strategy with application engineering teams to strengthen monitoring and reduce alert noise.
• Define, implement, and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs with product and engineering partners.
• Own and coordinate all government environment releases, driving pipeline efficiency, reliability, and visibility improvements.
• Ensure infrastructure and releases meet FedRAMP, government, and industry standards while maintaining required documentation and risk assessments.

Skills

SRE experience

DevOps

Incident management

Observability

FedRAMP/compliance

Government/regulatory

Container orchestration

Release engineering

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Role overview

This Staff Site Reliability Engineer position sits within a dedicated Government SRE team responsible for the technical reliability of regulated cloud environments and the coordination of compliant deployments into them. The role operates at the intersection of FedRAMP-style compliance obligations and the need to deliver a consistent software experience that mirrors commercial environments. U.S. citizenship and residence in the United States are required, with possible customer or third-party background checks up to Secret Clearance depending on assignment.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous software delivery, resolve production incidents, run post-mortems, and build automation for deployment, self-testing, and alerting.
• Lead incident management for production issues, ensuring rapid recovery, thorough root cause analysis, and follow-up preventative actions.
• Improve the observability strategy in collaboration with application engineering teams to strengthen monitoring and reduce alert noise.
• Define, implement, and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs with product and engineering partners to align with business objectives.
• Own and coordinate all government environment releases, driving pipeline efficiency, reliability, and visibility improvements.
• Ensure infrastructure and releases meet FedRAMP, government, and industry standards while maintaining required documentation and risk assessments.

Requirements

• 8+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering for SaaS, including 4+ years operating at large scale.
• 2+ years of production experience with a container orchestration system, including experience with canary or blue-green release patterns.
• Hands-on background with industry-standard observability stacks such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or OpenTelemetry, plus incident management processes.
• Proven track record supporting FedRAMP, security, risk management, and compliance processes for software releases.
• Experience working directly with government agencies or in other highly regulated industries.
• Familiarity with testing strategies and automation in large-scale environments.

Nice to have

• Comfort operating in environments with strict change-control and audit requirements.

Benefits and work setup

• The listed base salary range for this role is $156,000–$200,000 USD, with location-based variations.
• Standard benefits include equity awards, flexible paid time off, parental leave, medical/dental/vision coverage, 401(k) match, and wellness perks.