Site Reliability Engineer
Alembic
Location
San Francisco HQ
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
R&D
Compensation
- IC5Estimated salary commensurate with experience. $218K • Offers Equity
- IC6Estimated salary commensurate with experience. $240K • 0.1% – 0.2%
Our Compensation Philosophy:
Market-based: Our formula ensures new hires earn at or above current 75th percentile cash compensation benchmarks.
Ownership: Our generous equity program ensures new hires are owners, not just employees.
Transparent: We openly discuss salary expectations to avoid surprises later in the process.
Data-driven: We use objective data to remove bias and ensure consistency in compensation decisions.
About Alembic
Alembic is pioneering a revolution in marketing, proving the true ROI of marketing activities. The Alembic Marketing Intelligence Platform applies sophisticated algorithms and AI models to finally solve this long-standing problem. When you join the Alembic team, you’ll help build the tools that provide unprecedented visibility into how marketing drives revenue, helping a growing list of Fortune 500 companies make more confident, data-driven decisions.
About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help us scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operational excellence at the core. You’ll partner with engineers and data scientists to build, automate, and maintain the infrastructure that powers our core platform—including data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems.
This is a hands-on, high-impact role with visibility across the stack and the opportunity to take our experience and build a best-in-class system.
Key Responsibilities
Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure to support real-time analytics and machine learning workloads
Improve system reliability and performance through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning
Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, rollback mechanisms, and config management
Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes (SLOs, runbooks, on-call rotations)
Collaborate across engineering and data science teams to drive a culture of performance and reliability
Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness across our cloud infrastructure
Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives
Must-Have Qualifications
8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
Deep experience with cloud environments (AWS preferred), containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
Strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and systems performance tuning
Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.)
Ability to debug complex systems and automate solutions in scripting languages (Python, Bash, etc.)
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally
Nice-to-Have
Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, etc.)
Familiarity with security practices for cloud-native applications and infrastructure
Experience in high-compliance or SOC-2 environments
What You’ll Get
Ownership of mission-critical infrastructure in a company solving real-world enterprise problems
A front-row seat to a high-performance engineering culture
The ability to influence how our platform scales—from deployment to incident management
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An environment that values curiosity, accountability, and impact
Why Join Alembic?
High-impact role: Shape the future of our data platform at an early-stage startup.
Growth opportunities: Work in a fast-paced environment with opportunities to take on new challenges.
Collaborative culture: Join a team of passionate, skilled engineers and technologists.
Competitive compensation: Including salary, equity, and benefits.
Compensation Range: $218K - $240K