# Senior Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Carta](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/carta)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Santa Clara, CA, Seattle, WA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $182k – $225k/yr
**Skills:** AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Docker, gRPC, Postgres
**Posted:** 2026-05-06

> Builds and scales infrastructure platforms including compute, storage, and networking on AWS with Kubernetes. Designs monitoring/alerting systems, collaborates on scalable app designs, and improves systems for global expansion using Python, Terraform, and observability tools.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and scale internal platform offerings (compute, storage, networking) to ensure reliability and performance of applications.
- Design and implement monitoring, alerting, and incident response systems.
- Collaborate with application software engineers to guide scalable designs.
- Act as an agent of change to incrementally improve systems for global expansion.

## Requirements
- Extensive experience with cloud services: AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
- Proficient in Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Kubernetes or other container orchestration.
- Networking: CNI, network policies, proxies, service mesh.
- Monitoring/observability: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog.
- Proficiency in Python for efficient, scalable code.
- API services: RESTful/GraphQL design, deployment, maintenance.
- AI fluency: using AI tools daily, building agents to reduce toil.
- Experience with CI/CD best practices appreciated.

## Compensation
- Seattle, WA: $181,688 - $213,750
- Santa Clara, CA or San Francisco, CA: $191,250 - $225,000
- Includes equity and exceptional benefits.

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