Site Reliability Engineer III at onX
Bozeman, MT
$130,000–$153,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Bozeman, MT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Site Reliability Engineer role focused on managing and improving a cloud-based infrastructure platform built around GCP services and Kubernetes, with a large Terraform codebase at its core. Day-to-day work spans deployment automation, observability integrations, incident response, and reducing operational toil. Suits engineers with solid production infrastructure experience who are comfortable with infrastructure-as-code and distributed systems.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 10,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,500–16,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (10)
The job title carries no seniority level, so the title states no level. However, the 5+ years overall / 3+ years production-systems requirement and the scope of responsibilities (on-call rotation, architectural decisions, incident response leadership) support a Senior classification.
The role is classified as 15-1252 (Software Developers) rather than 15-1244 (Systems Admins) because the primary day-to-day work involves writing and maintaining a large Terraform codebase, building deployment automation, and developing integrations — i.e., shipping infrastructure-as-code — rather than purely operating systems someone else built. 15-1244 is noted as a plausible runner-up given the strong operational/SRE flavor.
Cloud platform experience is required ('exposure to at least one major cloud platform'), with GCP listed as a bonus qualification. The required skill is captured as a cloud-platform gate with AWS and Azure as alternatives; GCP is listed separately as a preferred/bonus skill.
Practical experience with SQL, NoSQL, and object storage datastores is stated in the requirements section as a hard gate, so SQL and NoSQL are marked required. Object storage is covered by the GCS/Bigtable/BigQuery stack items already listed.
Monitoring/alerting integrations (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Monitoring, Checkly, Rootly) appear in the essential duties narrative as examples of technologies used, not in a formal requirements block — marked preferred accordingly.
CockroachDB, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, Airflow, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Run appear in the essential duties as 'technologies such as' examples, not hard gates — marked preferred.
Claude Code appears only under Bonus Qualifications — marked preferred.
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The role is US-remote with multiple named Basecamp and Connection Hub cities; Missoula, MT (company HQ) is used as the primary CBSA since no single primary metro is designated.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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