Site Reliability Engineer
EarnIn · Mountain View, CA
$189,000–$232,000from the description
Jul 13, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A mid-level Site Reliability Engineer role focused on keeping production systems stable and observable at a fintech company. Day-to-day work spans defining SLOs/SLIs, tuning alerting and observability tooling (including Datadog and CloudWatch), managing the full incident lifecycle, and building infrastructure-as-code automation to reduce toil. The role suits engineers with at least three years of SRE or infrastructure experience who can also write code in Python or Go and communicate reliability practices to broader engineering teams.
Mid level · 3+ years · San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,800 people in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 940–2,350
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 $217,796 (middle half $177,469–$231,052). 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 (6)
The role is titled 'Site Reliability Engineer' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified. The 3+ years requirement and framing around 'growing independence' and 'following existing playbooks' point to a Mid-level role.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the JD emphasizes writing automation and reliability code (Python/Go, infrastructure-as-code, tooling) which points to 15-1252 Software Developers, but the heavy operational focus (incident response, runbooks, alerting, on-call) also has affinity with 15-1244. The coding and build emphasis tips the balance to 15-1252.
Degree requirement is None: the JD states 'Bachelor's or master's degree … or equivalent industry experience', making the degree non-mandatory.
Datadog is listed alongside CloudWatch as observability tools in the requirements section; they are presented as examples of the same tooling category, so CloudWatch is captured as an alternative.
AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT, Claude) appear in the requirements section but are framed as 'experience using' and 'interest in' — the softer 'interest in' framing for operational AI workflows suggests these are more contextual/preferred than hard gates.
This is a hybrid role requiring 2 days/week in-office at Mountain View, CA (HQ); remote=false.
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