Staff SRE – Government Cloud Reliability & Incident Leader

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

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