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The Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer joins the CloudOps team to maintain Splunk Cloud for demanding enterprise customers. As the most senior technical individual contributor, you will own the technical strategy for incident response, prevention, and recovery. You will manage complex customer stacks, lead high-severity escalations, and make risk-informed decisions to protect uptime. Day-to-day responsibilities include building automation frameworks, shaping infrastructure architecture, and conducting root cause analysis to drive systemic improvements. Required skills include Linux administration, experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, and proficiency in Python or Go/golang. You will also utilize monitoring and observability platforms to close runbook gaps. This role solves critical production issues and ensures the reliability of a large-scale SaaS platform through technical leadership and architectural oversight.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $202800 from 62 postings across 16 companies.
Serve as the primary point of escalation and decision-maker during P1/P2 critical incidents.
Own the technical strategy for incident response, prevention, and systemic root cause analysis.
Manage the most complex customer stacks and provide authoritative guidance on configurations and migrations.
Design and implement automation frameworks and infrastructure architecture to improve platform resilience.
Set the technical standard for architectural thinking and operational excellence across the organization.
Translate customer insights into measurable improvements for the cloud service experience.
Mentor senior engineers and provide technical leadership to raise the team's overall performance.
Drive cross-functional improvements by partnering with Engineering, Customer Success, and Release Management.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's + 12 years, Master's + 8 years, or PhD + 5 years of related experience.
7+ years of experience in SRE, cloud operations, and systems engineering with Linux administration.
6+ years of hands-on experience across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
5+ years of experience in at least one scripting or automation language such as Python or Go/golang.
5+ years of experience communicating across engineering, customer-facing, and senior leadership audiences.
4+ years of experience leading post-mortems and root cause analysis for high-severity events.
Demonstrated track record of managing high-severity customer escalations and resolving critical production issues across major cloud platforms (preferred).
Extensive background in Linux systems administration and advanced expertise in large-scale distributed systems architecture (preferred).
Python
Go
SQL
AWS
Azure
GCP
C++
Typescript
Cypress
Splunk Query Language (SPL)
Distributed Systems
CI/CD
Query Optimization
Data Processing
Claude
Codex
WPT
Python
Go
Golang
AWS
Azure
GCP
Splunk Query Language (SPL)
distributed systems
CI/CD
System Design
Databases
Query Optimization
Claude
Codex
WPT
Observability