Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Materialsecurity
San Francisco, CA
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Candidates with cloud infrastructure expertise and a passion for automation will find this senior engineering role at a remote-first company with a focus on reliability and cross-team collaboration.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with hands-on experience in GCP and Kubernetes at scale and a track record of building automation tools.
    — “Hands-on experience running GCP (or a comparable cloud) and Kubernetes at production scale”
  • Individuals who have driven cross-functional reliability initiatives and taken ownership of ambiguous technical problems.
    — “Comfortable driving ambiguous, cross-team reliability work on your own, from diagnosis to a shipped fix”
  • Candidates with a background in software engineering and a focus on system health and reliability practices.
    — “Building systems and the culture that removes manual on-call work, fixes the underlying causes of alerts, and gives engineers a clear view of system health”

Things to consider

  • The role requires a strong understanding of cost-driven infrastructure limits and their impact on performance.
    — “Find where cost-driven limits create latency or reliability problems, and fix the trade-off”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in building tools for system health monitoring and reducing manual on-call work.
    — “Build tooling that shows system health across our GCP projects at a glance”
  • Emphasize your ability to lead infrastructure projects from start to finish with measurable outcomes.
    — “Lead infrastructure projects end to end”
  • Showcase your work in defining SLOs and improving reliability practices across engineering teams.
    — “Define SLOs with product teams and raise the bar on reliability practice across engineering”
  • Demonstrate how you’ve pioneered reliability engineering in agent-first or similar production systems.
    — “Pioneer reliability engineering for agent-first production systems”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • design and build software for reliability
  • lead infrastructure projects
Typical background
site reliability engineeringsoftware engineering

Skills & requirements

Required

GCPKubernetesPostgreSQLSlos

Preferred

Cost OptimizationAgent-first Production Systems

About the role

Original posting from Materialsecurity via Ashby

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Material Security, you'll own the reliability of the infrastructure every product team builds on, including GCP, Kubernetes, and Postgres across hundreds of GCP projects. This is a software engineering role, where you’ll be building systems and the culture that removes manual on-call work, fixes the underlying causes of alerts, and gives engineers a clear view of system health. You'll work with every team and work with leadership to decide where things go..

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Design and build software that removes manual on-call intervention and recurring sources of toil.
  • Lead infrastructure projects end to end.
  • Find where cost-driven limits create latency or reliability problems, and fix the trade-off.
  • Build tooling that shows system health across our GCP projects at a glance.
  • Define SLOs with product teams and raise the bar on reliability practice across engineering.
  • Pioneer reliability engineering for agent-first production systems.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

  • Technical Ability: Solid software engineering fundamentals and raw coding ability. Production code is your default way of solving a problem.
  • Infrastructure Depth: Hands-on experience running GCP (or a comparable cloud) and Kubernetes at production scale, including autoscaling and capacity management.
  • Automation First: You have built tools and automation that other engineers depended on, not just runbooks that describe a manual fix.
  • Ownership: Comfortable driving ambiguous, cross-team reliability work on your own, from diagnosis to a shipped fix.

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Material Security is a remote-first workplace with an office in San Francisco, California.

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Compensation at Material Security is determined by a range of factors, including but not limited to the individual’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected annual compensation range for this position is $213,000-$229,000.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Material Security is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

Source: Materialsecurity careers (Ashby)

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