Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Government

SentinelOne

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$156,000–$200,000 / yr
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57 days ago
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About SentinelOne

SentinelOne is a cybersecurity company that provides an AI-powered extended detection and response (XDR) platform. Its Singularity platform delivers autonomous endpoint, cloud, and identity protection for enterprises.

SentinelOne currently has 32 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $170,000–$236,500 across 32 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Government

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Government joins the Government SRE team to manage the technical reliability and compliant deployment of software into regulated environments. This role involves driving continuous software delivery, leading incident management, and optimizing observability strategies to reduce noise. You will design and maintain software solutions for operational and pipeline challenges while ensuring all infrastructure meets FedRAMP, DoD, and NIST 800 53 standards. Key responsibilities include defining SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs and coordinating government environment releases. Required technical skills include experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and programming languages like Python, Go, or Ruby. You must also be proficient with Terraform, Pulumi, GitOps, and observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry to support large-scale SaaS products in highly regulated industries.

What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn?

Median $180200 from 121 postings across 36 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive continuous software delivery and create automation strategies for deployment, self-testing, and alerting.
  • Lead incident management for production issues, including root cause analysis and preventative follow-up actions.
  • Optimize observability strategies by designing monitoring solutions to enhance alerting and reduce noise.
  • Define and monitor SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs in collaboration with product and engineering teams.
  • Design and maintain software solutions to address operational, compliance, and pipeline challenges.
  • Coordinate all government environment releases to improve pipeline efficiency, reliability, and visibility.
  • Ensure all infrastructure and deployments meet FedRAMP, government regulations, and industry standards.

What we're looking for

  • U.S. Citizenship and a work location in the United States are required.
  • 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering for SaaS products.
  • 4+ years of experience running operations at a large scale.
  • 2+ years of production experience with a container orchestration system (Kubernetes preferred) and Continuous Delivery.
  • Strong understanding of compliance frameworks relevant to government deployments (e.g., FedRAMP, DoD, NIST 800 53, NIST 800 137).
  • Multi-cloud experience in AWS/GCP (expertise within AWS preferred).
  • Demonstrated experience with at least one main programming language (Python, Go, Ruby, etc.) and proficiency in bash scripting.
  • Secret Clearance if.

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