Sr/Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Consumer Apps at Attain
Chicago, IL
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Jul 14, 2026
Chicago, IL
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior or staff-level SRE role focused on eliminating manual operational toil through automation, with AI-assisted tooling treated as a core competency alongside it. Day-to-day work spans writing Terraform modules, managing Kubernetes and Istio configurations, maintaining GCP databases, building CI/CD pipelines, and expanding observability via Prometheus and Grafana. The role suits an experienced cloud infrastructure engineer comfortable collaborating across multiple engineering teams on a large-scale fintech platform.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3,650–22,300
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.
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).
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 title reads 'Senior/Staff' — the posting presents both levels simultaneously. 'Senior' is used as the advertised seniority since it is the lower of the two claimed levels; the actual scope (cross-team infrastructure ownership, architecture participation, 6+ years) is consistent with Senior.
All qualifications are listed under a single 'Preferred Qualifications' heading, making every skill preferred rather than a hard gate. No separate required/must-have section exists in this posting.
The 6+ years figure appears under Preferred Qualifications, so it is technically preferred; however, it is the only experience signal in the posting and is treated as the role-level minimum for sizing purposes.
The role is primarily hybrid in Chicago, IL and New York, NY (4 days in-office), but the posting explicitly states openness to a fully remote arrangement for the right candidate — remote is flagged accordingly.
The New York, NY metro (CBSA 35620) is a co-equal primary location; Chicago is listed first and used as the primary CBSA, but hiring managers should note both markets.
The SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role writes and ships infrastructure code (Terraform modules, Helm charts, CI/CD pipelines) pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers, but has a meaningful operational/SRE flavor (monitoring, incident response, database maintenance) that could support 15-1244.
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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