Mountain View, CA

Salary
$220,000–$320,000
Posted
Jul 25, 2026
Location
Mountain View, CA
Last confirmed open
Jul 26, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior infrastructure/SRE role focused on managing Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, hybrid on-premises and cloud environments, and observability stacks in support of chip-design and ML workloads. The position involves maintaining high-availability platforms and developing AI-assisted automation for an AI accelerator program. It suits engineers with substantial hands-on experience across infrastructure-as-code, hybrid cloud architectures, and monitoring tooling.

Senior level · 5+ years · Full-time

Pay in the description: $220,000–$320,000

Must have (6)
KubernetesTerraform or AnsibleGitHub Actions, Bazel or BuildkiteAWS or GCPProxmox or VMwarePrometheus or Loki
Nice to have (1)
GitHub Enterprise

“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 1,200 people in CA plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 490–2,550

Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.

What gives you an edge
Proxmox6%Terraform11%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
GitHub Actions40%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $178,245 (middle half $140,002–$221,435). 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 (7)

The compensation range ($220K–$320K/yr) is stated as California-specific; final offers depend on level, location, and skills.

The role is classified as 15-1252 (Software Developers) because the JD centers on building and owning infrastructure — Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and observability tooling — rather than purely operating systems someone else built. 15-1244 is noted as a runner-up given the significant operational/on-call component.

The observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Loki) is listed as a single 'or equivalent' requirement; all four named tools are captured as separate required skills since the JD presents them as a fluency requirement, not a pick-one list.

The CI/CD requirement names GitHub Actions, Bazel, and Buildkite as alternatives; Bazel also appears separately under the optional section as a build-system skill.

GitHub Enterprise administration, Bazel build systems, ML-platform infrastructure, and RAG/knowledge-platform operations are explicitly marked '(Optional)' in the posting and are captured as preferred.

No specific city or CBSA is mentioned; the California pay range and company context suggest a Bay Area location, but this cannot be confirmed from the posting alone.

The posting mentions potential EAR/ITAR export-control implications but does not gate on a security clearance.

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