Software Engineer III, Site Reliability
MyFitnessPal
$120,000–$165,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A site reliability engineering role on a team that owns the CI/CD, automation, and self-service platforms used by product engineers. Day-to-day work spans SLO/error-budget frameworks, incident response, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, observability via Datadog, and embedding security controls (SAST/DAST/SCA, policy-as-code) directly into the delivery pipeline. Suits an engineer with substantial hands-on production ownership across reliability and platform security.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Mid, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,650–6,000
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). 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 (9)
The title 'Software Engineer III' maps to a numeric level III, which conventionally signals Senior; however, MyFitnessPal's internal ladder may treat III as a mid-level band. The level advertised in the title is set to Mid (the conservative read of 'III' as the third rung) while seniority reflects the Senior-level scope and 5+ years gate the requirements actually demand.
SOC classification is Medium-confidence: the role is titled SRE and clearly writes and ships automation/tooling code (Go/Python/TypeScript, CI/CD pipelines, policy-as-code, IaC), which points to 15-1252 Software Developers. The runner-up 15-1244 is noted because a meaningful portion of duties (incident response, on-call, capacity planning, Kubernetes operations) are infrastructure-operations work.
AWS is explicitly called out as 'a plus' in the qualifications; the hard gate is on 'a major cloud platform' generically, so AWS is marked preferred with Azure/GCP as alternatives.
Datadog is similarly flagged as 'a plus' in the qualifications section, so it is marked preferred even though it appears prominently in the duties narrative.
SAST/DAST/SCA are listed together as a single integrated requirement; DAST and SCA are captured as alternatives to SAST since the JD treats them as a bundle ('SAST/DAST/SCA tooling') rather than three independent gates.
Policy-as-code (OPA/Rego, Kyverno, Conftest) is required in the duties section but the qualifications section frames Kyverno as 'a plus' and the others as 'also relevant' — the preferred flag reflects the qualifications section's framing, which is the authoritative gate signal.
Compliance frameworks (SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA) and chaos engineering are explicitly listed as 'a plus' in qualifications.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): chaos engineering.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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