Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Jobgether
$165,000–$230,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level infrastructure role at a cybersecurity company, focused on defining reliability strategy and architecting scalable, secure systems for a globally distributed platform. Day-to-day work spans Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, observability platforms, and deployment automation across hosted, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. The role also carries significant technical leadership responsibilities, including mentoring engineers, leading incident response, and shaping infrastructure standards across the organization.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 9,100 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,900–13,700
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 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The role is classified as Software Developers (15-1252) rather than Systems Admins (15-1244) because the JD explicitly requires designing and building production-quality systems, internal tooling, and automation frameworks — the primary output is code and engineered platforms, not operating infrastructure someone else built. The runner-up 15-1244 reflects the heavy infrastructure operations and incident-response scope.
The title is 'Staff Site Reliability Engineer' and the requirements explicitly call for 'Staff, Principal, or Lead engineering level' ownership of org-wide initiatives, supporting the Staff seniority classification despite the 8+ year floor being consistent with Senior at many companies.
Go and Python are listed as interchangeable ('at least one modern programming language such as Go or Python'); Go is named first and used as the primary skill with Python as the alternative.
GitHub Actions and ArgoCD are listed as examples ('such as') within a required qualifications section, so they are treated as hard gates on the CI/CD and GitOps capability respectively, with the qualifier indicating tool-level interchangeability rather than making the requirement optional.
No specific degree is required; the JD describes an 'ideal candidate' profile without mandating a formal credential.
Compensation is stated as a base salary range of $165,000–$230,000 with additional bonus and equity eligibility noted separately.
The posting is placed via Jobgether on behalf of an unnamed partner company; the actual employer and any additional company-specific requirements are not disclosed.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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