Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Domino Data Lab
$200,000–$230,000from the description
Jul 25, 2026
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Jul 26, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior SRE role focused on building AI-assisted internal tooling — such as systems that analyze logs, tickets, and traces to speed up incident resolution — while also owning observability infrastructure, incident response, and SLO/SLI frameworks. The position blends hands-on engineering in Python or Go with operational leadership, including mentoring engineers and shaping SRE practices across the organization. It suits someone with deep production ownership experience and strong software engineering skills.
Senior level · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 8,600–30,800
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The role is titled simply 'SRE' with no level modifier, so advertised seniority is Unspecified; however, the scope — leading tooling development, mentoring engineers, shaping SRE practice org-wide, and owning incident response end-to-end — clearly supports a Senior classification.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the posting explicitly frames this as 'equal parts hands-on operator, software engineer, and technical leader,' with a strong emphasis on building internal AI-assisted reliability tooling in Python or Go (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers). However, the operational ownership, incident response, and infrastructure fluency components are substantial enough that 15-1244 is a credible runner-up.
Python and Go are presented as interchangeable options ('Python or Go') — Python is listed as the primary name with Go in alternatives.
LLM-based systems, retrieval workflows, SaaS platform operations, and support/developer tooling experience are all listed under the 'Bonus' section and are marked as preferred accordingly.
No specific degree requirement is stated anywhere in the posting.
The role is explicitly tagged #LI-Remote and the compensation range is described as the 'annual US base salary range,' confirming US-based remote work.
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