# Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Ironclad](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/ironclad)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Chicago, IL
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $245k – $270k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, GCP, Terraform, Pulumi, CircleCI, Argo CD, Claude Code, TypeScript, Database Management
**Posted:** 2026-05-29

> Ironclad is seeking a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer to provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the SRE team, champion engineering excellence, and drive architectural resilience for their cloud platform.

## Job Description

## Roles & Responsibilities:
* Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the Site Reliability Engineering team and our broader Cloud Platform
* Define and champion SRE best practices, setting the standard for engineering excellence across the entire organization
* Solve the whole problem. Architecture for resiliency, identify risks, and make it happen.
* A proven track record of designing and driving an 'automate-everything' culture (build, test, deploy, monitor)
* Preference for collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
* Thorough understanding of backup/recovery systems, cloud storage architecture, and distributed systems
* Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Ironclad’s availability, and provide support with internal or customer-facing incidents
* Translate the near, mid, and long-term strategic needs of the business into a scalable, resilient platform roadmap
* Drive critical architectural decisions with a relentless focus on security, scalability, and high performance
* Be a mentor, multiply our team’s output with leadership and guidance

## Key Skills:
* 8+ years of DevOps / SRE experience
* 5+ years of coding experience
* Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (or similar provider)
* Ability to build resilient infrastructure
* Modern GitOps - Experience with tools like Terraform/Pulumi, CircleCI, ArgoCD
* Experience with modern AI enabled tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Zed
* Troubleshooting and analytical skills, can PR review human and AI generated code
* Strong technical aptitude and exceptional communication skills (written and verbal)
* Desire for helping customers, and the ability to dive deep and learn a new product.
* Experience and desire to work cross-functionally
* Team and goal-oriented.
* High output; low ego

## Bonus Points if you have:
* Experience with multi-region support
* Expert Database Management Experience
* Experience managing AI Infrastructure
* Typescript Experience

## Base Salary Range:
* Staff Site Reliability Engineer: $220,000 - $235,000
* Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer: $245,000 - $270,000

## US Full-Time Employee Benefits at Ironclad:
* 100% health coverage for employees (medical, dental, and vision), and 75% coverage for dependents with buy-up plan options available
* Market-leading leave policies, including gender-neutral parental leave and compassionate leave
* Family forming support through Maven for you and your partner
* Paid time off - take the time you need, when you need it
* Monthly stipends for wellbeing, hybrid work, and (if applicable) cell phone use
* Mental health support through Modern Health, including therapy, coaching, and digital tools
* Pre-tax commuter benefits (US Employees)
* 401(k) plan with Fidelity with employer match (US Employees)
* Regular team events to connect, recharge, and have fun
* And most importantly: the opportunity to help build the company you want to work at

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