Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Pinterest

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Work type
Remote
Location
San Francisco, CA
Salary
$139,764–$287,749 / yr
Posted
7 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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Above market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $183k
This role $214k
$122k most similar roles pay here $306k

This role pays more than 73% of similar roles. Most pay $152,037–$214,000 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $214k versus about $183k for comparable roles.

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Pinterest is a visual discovery and inspiration platform where people find ideas for home, style, recipes, and more. It serves hundreds of millions of users worldwide through its image and video pinboard product.

Pinterest currently has 82 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, tvScientific joins the team to operate, scale, and improve a cloud-native platform for CTV advertising. This role focuses on ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of production infrastructure while managing multi-tenant workloads. The engineer will manage GitOps-based deployment workflows using ArgoCD and Helm, drive infrastructure provisioning through Terraform and Terragrunt, and build CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions. Key responsibilities include leading incident response, performing root cause analysis, reducing operational toil via Bash or Python scripting, and advancing observability across logs, metrics, and traces. The role requires deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes cluster operations, and IAM-aware security practices. The candidate will solve technical challenges related to infrastructure as code and automated delivery within a high-scale environment focused on automating and optimizing television advertising data for performance marketers.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?

Median $214000 from 54 postings across 15 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of production infrastructure and platform services.
  • Operate and scale Kubernetes platforms while managing multi-tenant workloads and governance.
  • Manage GitOps-based deployment workflows using ArgoCD and Helm.
  • Provision infrastructure and manage changes using Terraform and Terragrunt.
  • Build and support CI/CD automation pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement post-incident improvements.
  • Reduce operational toil through scripting, custom tooling, and process automation.
  • Advance observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting systems.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure.
  • Strong hands-on experience operating AWS in production environments.
  • Deep expertise in Kubernetes operations, troubleshooting, and multi-tenant workload management.
  • Experience implementing ArgoCD within a GitOps delivery model and using Helm.
  • Proficiency with Terraform and Terragrunt for infrastructure provisioning and environment management.
  • Solid scripting and automation skills using Bash and/or Python.
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.

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