# Staff Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

**Company:** [Harvey](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/harvey)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $238k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, Pulumi, Kubernetes, Datadog, Pagerduty, Python, Go, AWS, GCP, Azure, CI/CD
**Posted:** 2025-12-01

> Staff SRE ensures reliability, scalability, and performance of legal AI platform across global regions. Leads incident management, automates operations, optimizes infrastructure costs, and mentors teams. Requires 10+ years SRE experience, IaC, cloud platforms, and observability tools.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and manage monitoring, alerting, and infrastructure resources (compute, storage, networking) across 50+ global regions
- Lead incident management processes, including postmortems, root cause analyses, and driving actionable improvements
- Automate operational tasks and workflows, building tools and processes for capacity planning, graceful rollouts, and safe data access to maintain high reliability and reduce manual intervention
- Establish best practices for security, compliance, and reliability and collaborate across teams to drive these principles throughout the software lifecycle
- Optimize infrastructure costs through strategic capacity planning and build-versus-buy decisions while maintaining system performance, reliability, and functionality
- Provide technical mentorship and leadership, promoting best practices and fostering team growth

## What You Have
- **10+ years** of experience in Site Reliability Engineering or similar roles supporting production environments, with proven ability to mentor and guide technical teams
- Expertise in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (**Pulumi**, **Terraform**, **CloudFormation**, etc.)
- Deep familiarity with observability tools (**Datadog**, **Sentry**, etc.) and incident response practices (**PagerDuty**, **IncidentIO**, etc.)
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure platforms (**Azure**, **GCP**, **AWS**, etc.)
- Strong programming skills (**Python**, **Bash**, **Go**, or similar languages)
- Proven track record of diagnosing complex system problems and implementing durable solutions
- Solid understanding of **CI/CD**, **Kubernetes**, containerization, networking, databases, and cloud security principles
- Excellent problem-solving skills, meticulous attention to detail, and a commitment to operational excellence

## Compensation
**$238,000 - $290,000 USD**

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