Site Reliability Engineer at Arena Intelligence, Inc.
CA
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Jul 15, 2026
CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A backend infrastructure engineering role focused on building and scaling the systems that power live AI model evaluation — including API gateways, routing layers, and automated arena runtimes that handle traffic across multiple frontier model providers. The work spans high-throughput, low-latency API design, enterprise features such as rate limiting and audit logging, and deep observability tooling. Suited to experienced backend engineers with a distributed systems background and hands-on familiarity with LLM provider APIs.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 4 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 8,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 4,900–12,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
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)
Go and Rust are listed as 'and/or' — either satisfies the requirement; Go is named first and is the more common choice for the described gateway/proxy work.
AWS and GCP are presented as interchangeable cloud options ('AWS or GCP'); both are named so one is captured as the primary with the other as an alternative.
Kong, Envoy, and Tyk appear under 'Nice to Have' alongside Bifrost (a less-common internal/niche tool not emitted as a standalone skill) and 'custom' gateway experience — all treated as preferred.
The AI infra stack (vLLM, LiteLLM, LangChain) is explicitly listed under 'Nice to Have'.
Billing infrastructure experience (Stripe, Metronome, Orb) is explicitly listed under 'Nice to Have'.
SSO, RBAC, and audit logs appear under 'Nice to Have' as enterprise-ready feature experience.
No compensation figures are provided beyond a general statement that pay is competitive and location-dependent; no range was published.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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