Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Salesforce

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San Francisco, CA
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104 days ago
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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer joins the Site Reliability organization to drive operational resilience for cloud services. This role involves leading incident detection, response, and resolution while proactively designing systems that utilize automation, observability, and AI-powered platforms to reduce toil. You will build and run scalable systems, manage Service Level Indicators and Objectives, and lead post-incident reviews to ensure high availability. Key responsibilities include architecting production-grade observability solutions and implementing self-healing systems. Required technical skills include proficiency in Python and Go, experience with containerized architectures like Docker and Kubernetes, and knowledge of distributed systems. You will also utilize workflow engines such as Temporal, Airflow, or Argo Workflows. The work focuses on maintaining high-performance, always-on customer experiences by applying software engineering principles to large-scale internet service architectures.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Lead incident detection, response, and resolution as an Incident Commander to ensure high uptime and rapid recovery.
  • Design and implement complex automation platforms and self-healing systems using durable workflow engines like Temporal or Airflow.
  • Architect production-grade observability solutions for monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing to enable proactive detection.
  • Build AI-powered operational tools including anomaly detection systems, predictive analysis pipelines, and intelligent runbook automation.
  • Apply software engineering principles to eliminate toil and improve operational efficiency across large-scale distributed systems.
  • Define and uphold Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to guide engineering and release decisions.
  • Provide technical coaching to junior team members through pair programming, design reviews, and code reviews.
  • Ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices and AI-driven development workflows.

What we're looking for

  • A related technical degree is required.
  • 5+ years of experience in systems engineering and software engineering for large-scale, internet-facing services.
  • Hands-on expertise with containerized architectures like Docker and Kubernetes and orchestration platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of distributed systems, Linux/Unix internals, and large-scale internet service architectures.
  • Proven proficiency in Python and Go (GoLang) with strong software engineering practices including testing and CI/CD.
  • Production experience building and operating observability platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, or Datadog.
  • Solid background in incident management, including on-call participation, root cause analysis, and postmortem practices.
  • Experience applying AI/ML to operations, including anomaly detection, predictive analysis, and prompt engineering.

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