Skip to content
SquareSquareNew York, NY

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior SRE improves platform reliability using AI-driven automation, leads incident response and oncall for critical services, and implements safe deployment practices. Requires 5+ years experience in backend/platform engineering, observability, and high-availability systems.

161k – 284k
On-site5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

  • Build and extend platforms to improve system reliability
  • Work on team goals that encompass reliability for the entire company
  • Standardize reliability tools across multiple platforms and organizations
  • Triage, coordinate, and lead stabilization of sev 0–1 incidents
  • Serve as primary oncall, maintaining structured escalation paths and exercising leadership escalation
  • Drive platform-wide reliability improvements, shared operational tooling, and deploy-safety patterns
  • Use AI-driven systems to improve signal detection, reduce noise, and accelerate root cause analysis
  • Design and implement safe deployment patterns (progressive delivery, automated rollback, guardrails)

Requirements

  • Drive to root cause systems with many moving parts and take the necessary steps to fix them
  • Demonstrated technical initiative and leadership on previous projects, especially those with a backend/platform focus
  • Familiarity with AI-driven tooling for observability, incident analysis, or automation
  • A mindset that naturally reaches for AI to accelerate problem-solving and reduce toil
  • Experience running production oncall for high-availability systems
  • Strong incident management skills — structured triage, mitigation under pressure, blameless postmortems
  • Fluency with CI/CD pipelines, progressive rollout strategies, and rollback automation
  • Monitoring & observability expertise — building/tuning alerts for uptime, error rates, latency regression, and resource exhaustion
  • Ability to create and maintain evidence-based maturity assessments using trailing 90-day data windows
  • Comfort with vendor/dependency management — maintaining validated escalation contacts reachable within ≤ 5 minutes
  • Boundless curiosity, autonomy, and a strong sense of accountability
  • A strong desire to perform and grow as an engineer
  • 5+ years of software development experience

Technologies

  • Kotlin, Modern Java (11+)
  • HTTP, JSON, gRPC, and Protocol Buffers
  • MySQL / Vitess / DynamoDB
  • Event driven architectures
  • DataDog
  • LaunchDarkly
  • Terraform, Kubernetes, Istio/Envoy
  • Amazon Web Services

Compensation & Benefits

  • Healthcare coverage (Medical, Vision and Dental insurance)
  • Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account
  • Retirement Plans including company match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program
  • Wellness programs, including access to mental health, 1:1 financial planners, and a monthly wellness allowance
  • Paid parental and caregiving leave
  • Paid time off (including 12 paid holidays)
  • Paid sick leave
  • Learning and Development resources
  • Paid Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
  • Equity plan eligibility
  • Possible sign-on bonus

Pay varies by location zone:

  • Zone A: USD $189,000 - $283,600
  • Zone B: USD $179,600 - $269,400
  • Zone C: USD $170,100 - $255,100
  • Zone D: USD $160,700 - $241,100

Skills

KubernetesTerraformAWSDatadogIstioLaunchdarklyKotlinJavagRPCMySQLVitessDynamoDBCI/CDObservabilityAI Tools

Similar roles

DevOps / SRE jobs
Nuro

Senior Software Engineer, Over-the-Air Updates.

NuroMountain View, CA

Builds and maintains release infrastructure and OTA update systems for Nuro's autonomous robot fleets, ensuring reliable software deployment at scale. Requires 5+ years in large-scale distributed systems, strong C++ or Go proficiency, and bachelor's in CS/EE.

160k – 241k
On-site5+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Talkiatry

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

TalkiatryUnited States

Join as the first SRE to define reliability practices, SLOs, observability, and toil reduction across six product teams at a leading mental health platform. 7+ years software/infra engineering with hands-on SRE experience required; product teams retain on-call ownership.

160k – 185k
Remote7+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Aurelian

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

AurelianSeattle, WA

Senior Infrastructure Engineer building analytics, observability, and developer tooling for Aurelian's real-time AI agents used in 911 emergency response centers. Requires 4+ years in infrastructure/platform/backend roles with experience in reliability and scale.

160k – 220k
On-site4+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Crusoe

Senior Microsoft Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

CrusoeSan Francisco, CA

Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer owning design, implementation, and management of Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Azure, and Azure Arc hybrid infrastructure. Requires 8+ years infrastructure experience with deep Azure/M365 expertise, IaC, Windows Server admin, and hands-on data center hardware work.

160k – 195k
On-site8+ YOEDevOps / SRE
Octus

Lead DevOps Engineer

OctusNew York, NY

Lead a team of DevOps engineers to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and security best practices. Requires 7+ years of DevOps experience including 2 years in leadership.

160k – 215k
On-site7+ YOEDevOps / SRE