Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Company websitealembic.com (Alembic, opens in new tab)
Base salary $210K to $240K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in San Francisco, CA
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- LocationSan Francisco, CA
- WorkplaceOn-site
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (2 h ago) · observed since
About this job
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help us scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operational excellence at the core. You’ll partner with engineers and data scientists to build, automate, and maintain the infrastructure that powers our core platform—including data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role with visibility across the stack and the opportunity to shape the future of our infrastructure and operations.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure to support real-time analytics and machine learning workloads
Improve system reliability and performance through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning
Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, rollback mechanisms, and config management
Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes (SLOs, runbooks, on-call rotations)
Collaborate across engineering and data science teams to drive a culture of performance and reliability
Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness across our cloud infrastructure
Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
What Will Help You Succeed
8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
5+ years of experience with datacenter operations and/or system and network administration
Experience with containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and systems performance tuning, including strong-to-expert facility with SSH, terminal, shell and the Linux command line.
Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
Good programming skills and ability to apply sound coding principles to IaC and scripting code with languages such as Terraform, Ansible, Bash (shell scripting), and/or Python.
Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.)Ability to debug complex systems and automate solutions in scripting languages
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally
Nice-to-Have
Experience with cloud and managed services (e.g. AWS)
Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, etc.)
Familiarity with security practices for cloud-native applications and infrastructure
Experience in high-compliance or SOC-2 environments
What You’ll Get
Ownership of mission-critical infrastructure in a company solving real-world enterprise problems
A front-row seat to a high-performance engineering culture
The ability to influence how our platform scales—from deployment to incident management
An environment that values curiosity, accountability, and impact
Source: Alembic on Ashby · View original posting (opens in new tab)
This listingSenior Site Reliability Engineer$210K to $240K
Senior Network & Site Reliability Engineer$210K to $240K
Commercial Counsel$175K to $200K
Patent Counsel$175K to $200K
Senior Field Scientist$160K to $185K
Technical Sourcer$110K to $135K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer (this listing) | $210K - $240K |
| Senior Network & Site Reliability Engineer | $210K - $240K |
| Commercial Counsel | $175K - $200K |
| Patent Counsel | $175K - $200K |
| Senior Field Scientist | $160K - $185K |
| Technical Sourcer | $110K - $135K |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2025-12-22
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: San Francisco HQ
USD 210,000 – 240,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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- Structured pay field published by the employer
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What we verified
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- The pay is an annual base salary in US dollars with a minimum of at least $100,000.
- The role was publicly listed on the employer's job board when last checked.
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