Staff Site Reliability Engineer
SimSpace Corporation
$165,000–$230,000
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff-level SRE role focused on defining infrastructure architecture for a cyber range platform that must deploy across company-owned data centers, customer-supplied hardware, and air-gapped environments. The work centers on multi-cluster Kubernetes, GitOps pipelines, observability strategy using the Grafana stack, and embedding security into deployment workflows. The role also involves setting reliability standards, leading incident response, and mentoring senior engineers.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $165,000–$230,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,550–8,000
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role explicitly requires prior Staff, Principal, or Lead-level SRE/Platform/DevOps experience, making this a genuine Staff-level position — not merely a Senior role with an inflated title.
Go and Python are listed as examples of 'at least one modern language'; Go is named first and is the most common choice in SRE/platform contexts, so it is the primary skill with Python as an alternative.
Jsonnet and Grafana Tanka are called out with expert-level language in the requirements section and are treated as hard gates, not merely stack color.
Kustomize appears alongside Jsonnet/Tanka in a parenthetical ('alongside Kustomize') in the responsibilities section rather than the requirements block, so it is treated as preferred.
VMware appears only in the requirements narrative describing deployment model scope ('VMware-based') rather than as an explicitly gated skill, so it is treated as preferred.
The posting mentions air-gapped and heavily regulated environments as deployment contexts but does not gate on a US security clearance — clearance is not required.
Caller has declared this fully remote; no metro is inferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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