Staff SRE & Platform Reliability Architect

Grailbio; Edison (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time-off

401(k) with employer match

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Job summary

GRAIL is seeking a Staff Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer to lead the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud-native platform. You will define infrastructure standards, drive reliability decisions, and mentor teams while building scalable systems.

Onsite at Menlo Park, CA, with planned Fall 2026 move to Sunnyvale, CA. You will own Kubernetes reliability, establish SLO/SLI, and lead incident response across AWS/GCP/Azure environments.

Qualifications

• BS in CS/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years in SRE/DevOps/platform engineering.
• Hands-on with major cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Experience IaC solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience designing/operating CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on Kubernetes in production environments.
• Automation scripting in Python/Go/Bash/PowerShell.
• Observability and monitoring tooling expertise.
• Strong networking, security, and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Experience in regulated environments (ISO 27001/NIST/SOC2/HIPAA).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate highly available cloud infrastructure across cloud platforms.
• Architect and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines and deployment frameworks.
• Lead infrastructure-as-code adoption and maturity across teams.
• Own Kubernetes reliability across multi-cluster environments.
• Establish observability platforms and define SLO/SLI frameworks.
• Lead incident response, perform RCAs, and implement improvements.
• Optimize infrastructure for cost, performance, and scalability.
• Define and enforce DevOps, reliability, and security best practices.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, data, QA, security, and IT.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical leadership.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CFN

CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub, Jira)

Kubernetes multi-cluster

Observability tooling (Prometheus, Dat

Incident response & RCA

Security & compliance

Automation scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Networking fundamentals

Regulated environments (ISO 27001/NIST

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

GRAIL is seeking a Staff Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer to lead the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud-native platform. You will define infrastructure standards, drive reliability decisions, and mentor teams while building scalable systems.

Onsite at Menlo Park, CA, with planned Fall 2026 move to Sunnyvale, CA. You will own Kubernetes reliability, establish SLO/SLI, and lead incident response across AWS/GCP/Azure environments.