AlphaSense
The market intelligence and search platform trusted by over 3,500 leading organizations
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$150K - $225K / year
8 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudDNSGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesPrometheusPythonTcp/ipGo
Job Description
• Architect Reliability Paved Paths: Build frameworks and self-service tooling that let teams own the reliability of their services in a "You Build It, You Run It" culture.
• Lead AI-Driven Reliability: Drive our AIOps strategy — automating diagnostics, remediation, and proactive failure prevention.
• Champion Reliability Culture: Embed SRE practices across engineering via design reviews, production readiness, and operational standards.
• Incident Leadership: Act as Incident Commander during critical events, modeling operational excellence, and ensuring blameless postmortems lead to lasting improvements.
• Advance Observability: Deliver end-to-end monitoring, tracing, and profiling (Prometheus, Grafana, OTEL, Continuous Profiling) to optimize performance proactively.
• Mentor & Multiply: Elevate engineers across SRE and product teams through mentorship, technical guidance, and knowledge sharing.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or a similar role, with at least 3+ of those years operating in a Senior+ SRE position
- Strong background in running production SaaS systems at scale.
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go, or similar).
- Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and Kubernetes.
- Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, load balancing).
- Experience with monitoring & alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK).
- Familiarity with advanced observability (OTEL, continuous profiling).
- Proven incident management experience, including leading high-severity incidents and postmortems.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across the full stack.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Equity
- Generous benefits program