Site Reliability Engineer – AI-first Platform at BlueCat
Belgrade, MT
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Jul 12, 2026
Belgrade, MT
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Site Reliability Engineer role focused on making an AI agent platform production-ready on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS), including AWS AgentCore workloads. Day-to-day work spans building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab, managing observability systems, writing Terraform for infrastructure, defining SLIs/SLOs, and participating in on-call incident response. Suited to experienced SRE or platform engineers with strong AWS, Kubernetes, and Python automation backgrounds.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9,400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,750–14,100
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).
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 job posting does not specify a work location or city — BlueCat is a global company with distributed teams, and the role appears to be remote-eligible based on the company's distributed structure, but no explicit remote/location statement was found in the posting.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is titled Site Reliability Engineer and the JD emphasizes both building (CI/CD pipelines, Terraform IaC, automation code in Python) and operating (on-call, incident response, cluster operations), which straddles 15-1252 Software Developers and 15-1244 Network and Computer Systems Administrators. The dominant signal — designing and building pipelines, automation, and infrastructure-as-code — tips toward 15-1252.
AWS AgentCore is listed as a required skill ('Experience operating or supporting AWS AgentCore or similar AI/agent platforms') but is a very new AWS service; the 'or similar' qualifier means comparable AI/agent orchestration platforms would be accepted — no alternatives were named in the JD.
Terraform is listed as 'preferred' within the IaC requirement ('Infrastructure as Code, Terraform preferred'), but the requirement sits in the hard-requirements block under 'What You Bring', so IaC/Terraform is treated as a hard gate; the 'preferred' qualifier signals only that the specific tool is flexible, not that IaC itself is optional.
The Nice to Have section explicitly covers: AI/LLM or agent-based systems, stateful Kubernetes workloads (PostgreSQL, Redis), RAG/vector databases, multi-region AWS architecture, and cost optimization — all marked as preferred accordingly.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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