SRE Engineer - Seattle
Plaud · Seattle, WA
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Jul 21, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 22, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A site reliability engineering role focused on keeping AI-driven cloud products stable and performant at scale. Day-to-day work covers designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure on major providers, managing Kubernetes-based distributed systems, building out observability tooling, and owning incident response and on-call practices. The role also involves defining SLOs and error budgets and collaborating with product and engineering teams on reliability design. Suited to experienced SRE or platform engineers with a background in distributed systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,350 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,000–1,750
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 $190,744 (middle half $167,095–$224,501).
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 (7)
The role title is not stated in the posting; based on the responsibilities (SRE, reliability engineering, incident response, observability, SLOs), this is classified as an SRE/Platform Engineering role. The SOC code is Medium confidence: the JD emphasizes building reliability automation, observability tooling, and operating cloud-native systems — consistent with Software Developers (15-1252) — but the strong operational/incident-response framing also pulls toward Systems Administrators (15-1244).
Cloud platform requirement lists AWS, GCP, Azure, and OCI as interchangeable options; all four are captured as alternatives under AWS.
Programming language requirement lists Go, Python, and Java as interchangeable; all three are captured as alternatives under Go.
SLO/SLA frameworks, GPU cluster management, multi-region systems, and AI/ML platform experience all appear under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are marked accordingly.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The hybrid work model requires a minimum of three in-office days per week at the San Francisco office, so the role is not fully remote.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): GPU cluster management.
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