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MercorMercorSan Francisco, CA

Site Reliability Engineer

Owns production reliability for critical systems, builds SRE function from scratch, introduces modern practices like SLIs/SLOs and error budgets. Requires 5+ years SRE experience with large-scale distributed systems.

130k – 500k
On-site5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

What You’ll Do

  • Own reliability and production safety for core shared services and customer-facing systems.
  • Partner directly with infrastructure leadership to define SRE priorities, reliability standards, and production safety roadmap.
  • Repair and improve how our production systems are structured so they are stable, resource-efficient, isolated, and well-observed.
  • Introduce and champion modern SRE practices (e.g., incident response, postmortems, SLIs/SLOs) across engineering teams.
  • Collaborate with leverage engineering and applied AI teams to ensure sustainable growth.
  • Represent SRE best practices internally and help teams onboard onto production in a way that is safe, scalable, and consistent with SRE principles.

What We’re Looking For

  • Experience doing true SRE work (not just operations) across multiple roles or companies.
  • Deep familiarity with SRE practices as popularized by Google (e.g., error budgets, reliability vs. risk trade-offs, large-scale distributed systems).
  • 5+ years of SRE experience; 15+ years of overall experience is ideal for this first SRE hire.
  • Proven success operating systems at scale, with a strong understanding of the challenges of large, distributed production environments.
  • Strong collaboration skills; able to work efficiently with cross-functional engineering teams.
  • Ability to drive cultural change around reliability while remaining hands-on in building and fixing systems.
  • Comfort working in high-intensity, high-availability environments where uptime and production quality are critical.

Nice to Haves

  • Experience as a founding SRE or early SRE hire, standing up SRE practices and orgs from scratch.
  • Hands-on experience in the AWS ecosystem, Kubernetes, and modern IaC tooling (Terraform, Spacelift, etc.).

Skills

KubernetesAWSTerraformSre PracticesSlis/SlosError BudgetsIncident ResponsePostmortemsDistributed SystemsIac

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