Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Jobgether
$170,000–$190,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior infrastructure role focused on building, operating, and improving cloud-based environments that underpin a modern software platform. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes and service mesh management, CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Helm, Ansible), observability, and automation — including applying AI/ML tools to incident management and predictive maintenance. The position also carries architectural input, documentation, and mentoring responsibilities, suiting an experienced SRE or DevOps engineer comfortable across AWS, GCP, Azure, or Oracle Cloud.
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 10,600 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 6,300–19,000
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 (10)
The role title is 'Senior Site Reliability Engineer' but the day-to-day work spans both software/automation engineering (building CI/CD, IaC, self-healing systems) and infrastructure operations, making the SOC classification a genuine judgment call between 15-1252 (Software Developers) and 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators). The emphasis on building, designing, and automating — plus Kubernetes, Helm, and Jenkins — tips the balance toward 15-1252.
Total years of experience is stated only as 'several years' with no specific number, so no minimum year count is set.
The cloud platform requirement names AWS, GCP, Azure, and Oracle Cloud as interchangeable options ('such as'); AWS is used as the primary with the others captured as alternatives.
PowerShell and Bash are listed as interchangeable scripting options; PowerShell is listed first.
Oracle and SQL Server are listed as interchangeable relational database options.
Jenkins, Helm, and Ansible are each listed individually under the requirements section and are treated as separate hard gates rather than interchangeable alternatives, as the JD lists all three together as expected tools.
.NET application management is framed with 'familiarity with' — a softer qualifier — so it is marked preferred.
AI/ML tools appear in both the accountabilities narrative and the requirements section, but the requirements framing ('experience using AI/ML tools') is relatively soft and the capability is broad/non-specific, so it is marked preferred.
This posting is listed via Jobgether, a third-party matching platform; the actual hiring company is unnamed.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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