Senior Site Reliability Engineer - SDN
Lambda · San Francisco, CA
$240,000–$312,000
Jul 6, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior SRE role focused on maintaining and scaling a multi-tenant cloud networking platform, including SDN infrastructure and Kubernetes-based control plane services running on SmartNICs. Day-to-day work spans building automation to cut operational overhead, managing CI/CD and GitOps pipelines, running observability tooling, and participating in on-call incident response. Best suited to engineers with a strong background in large-scale distributed systems and Linux networking.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 5,900–14,800
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 $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
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 (6)
The job posting explicitly requires 4 days/week in-office presence at San Francisco/San Jose/Bellevue; the caller has instructed this be treated as fully remote and no metro be inferred. This overrides the posting's stated location requirement.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is framed as SRE/Production Engineering and emphasizes operating and scaling infrastructure (networking, Kubernetes, SDN) with some tooling/automation development. The balance of 'operate and improve' vs. 'develop tooling' sits between 15-1244 (Network/Systems Admins) and 15-1252 (Software Developers); 15-1244 was chosen because the primary day-to-day work is operating production infrastructure rather than shipping software products.
The posting states a salary range exists but does not disclose the actual figures ('The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data'), so no compensation values are extracted.
Python and Ansible appear together in the required section as interchangeable automation tools ('Python, Ansible, or similar'); they are combined into one skill entry with Ansible as an alternative.
The 'Nice To Have' section is clearly labeled as secondary/optional; all skills drawn from it are marked preferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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