# Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Sieve](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/sieve)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $150k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 3+ years
**Skills:** Terraform, GCP, AWS, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Victoriametrics, Argo, Helm, Kustomize, Python, Go, Rust, C++, Cloudflare, Svelte
**Posted:** 2026-02-05

> Designs and maintains reliable infrastructure for petabyte-scale video processing across multi-cloud environments. Owns incident response, observability (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), security, and CI/CD tooling with 3+ years experience in scalable systems.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Do
- Work with engineering to design and validate the infrastructure powering PB-scale workloads
- Build and maintain Terraform-managed multi-cloud deployments
- Improve cloud and data security (SSO, IAM, least privilege, auditability)
- Own incident response and harden systems against failure
- Develop CI/CD systems that minimize user error and maximize safety
- Build monitoring + alerting platforms (**Prometheus**, **OpenTelemetry**, **VictoriaMetrics**)
- Wrap internal reliability tooling with simple UIs for engineers

## Requirements
- **3+ years** building internal infrastructure at scale
- Experience on-call for Sev 0 / Sev 1 production incidents (L3 preferred)
- Strong cloud experience (**GCP**, **AWS**, Oracle, **Cloudflare**, etc.)
- Deep Infrastructure-as-Code experience (**Terraform** preferred)
- Familiarity with **Argo**, **Helm**, **Kustomize**, or similar deployment tools
- Experience operating observability systems (**Prometheus**, **OTel**, **VictoriaMetrics**)
- Backend fundamentals in **Python**, **Go**, **Rust**, or **C++**
- Strong networking + security intuition, including SSO implementation
- High ownership mindset over critical systems

## Bonus
- Experience building lightweight internal tooling (APIs, dashboards, **Svelte**)
- Familiarity with object storage systems (“buckets”)
- Active GitHub or portfolio projects

## Benefits
- 401k + Full Health Insurance
- Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner covered and your choice of snacks
- Ubers covered home

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