Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Alembic
Location
San Francisco HQ
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
On-site
Department
Engineering
Compensation
- Our compensation philosophy ensures new hires earn 50%+ current benchmarks. We'll discuss further with you. Most recent San Francisco benchmark data: $210K – $240K
Our Compensation Philosophy:
Market-based: Our formula ensures new hires earn at or above real-time 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 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 shape the future of our infrastructure and operations.
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
An environment that values curiosity, accountability, and impact
Compensation Range: $210K - $240K