Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Ridgeline · New York, NY
$153,000–$210,000from the description
Jul 2, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior SRE role focused on maintaining and improving a cloud-based SaaS platform built on AWS. Day-to-day work spans building CI/CD pipelines, expanding observability through metrics, tracing, and alerting, writing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and participating in on-call incident response. Suited to engineers with several years of production SaaS and AWS experience who are comfortable with automation, deployment strategies, and SLO-based reliability practices.
Senior level · 3+ years · Reno, NV · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 5 people in the Reno, NV area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 3–8
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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 $128,474 (middle half $105,909–$168,291). 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 (8)
The role is posted as hybrid across three locations: Reno, NV; San Ramon, CA; and New York, NY. Reno is listed first and described as the company's main campus; the CBSA reflects that primary location.
The 3–6 year experience range maps to Senior by scope (owns reliability programs, leads postmortems, participates in on-call, partners on architecture reviews), not just by years.
ECS and EKS are listed as alternatives ('ECS or EKS') in the requirements section — one skill is emitted with EKS as the alternative.
Python, Go, and Bash are listed as interchangeable scripting options; Python is emitted as the primary with Go and Bash as alternatives.
GitHub Actions, CircleCI, and Buildkite are listed as interchangeable CI/CD tool examples; GitHub Actions is emitted as primary with the others as alternatives.
Kubernetes, Helm, chaos engineering/fault injection, SLO/error budget program experience, Kotlin/Node.js/TypeScript, and a Bachelor's degree all appear under the 'Bonus' section and are marked as preferred.
The Bachelor's degree is listed only under 'Bonus' (preferred), so the degree requirement is set to None.
SOC confidence is Medium: the role clearly writes and ships automation code and IaC (pointing to 15-1252), but also has a strong operational/on-call component that could support 15-1244. The code-building emphasis wins.
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