Staff Site Reliability Engineer at TENEX.AI
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Jul 12, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff SRE role at an AI-driven cybersecurity startup, focused on designing and maintaining highly available cloud infrastructure, building automation and internal tooling, and leading incident response. The position suits a seasoned infrastructure engineer with a decade or more of experience in cloud platforms, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, and observability — ideally comfortable operating at scale in a fast-moving environment.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,450 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,650–6,700
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)
The posting is explicitly titled 'Staff Site Reliability Engineer', but the actual requirements (10+ years, cloud/IaC/observability expertise, no stated org-wide cross-team authority beyond influencing engineering practices) are consistent with a Senior-level role. 'Staff' is the advertised level; Senior is the level the requirements support.
The JD describes a role that both BUILDS automation/tooling/IaC and OPERATES infrastructure — a genuine SRE hybrid. 15-1252 (Software Developers) is chosen because the primary deliverables are code: internal tooling, automation, IaC, and reliability engineering. 15-1244 is the runner-up for the operational/systems-administration dimension.
Cloud platform requirement is stated as 'AWS, GCP, or Azure' — AWS is listed as the primary with GCP and Azure as alternatives. Kubernetes is called out specifically (EKS/GKE context).
Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) are all listed together under a single required observability bullet with 'e.g.' framing, indicating they are illustrative examples of the required capability rather than all individually mandated. They are marked required as a group representing the observability stack gate.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'Bachelor's or Master's degree … or a related field' but does not explicitly require it as a hard gate (no 'must have a degree' language, and equivalent experience is commonly implied in such phrasing). Treated as None.
Certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS/GCP Professional Cloud Architect) are explicitly called 'a plus' — not required.
The posting states Monday–Thursday onsite at company locations with WFH Friday; however, per caller instruction, this is being treated as fully remote and no metro is inferred.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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