Site Reliability Engineer (Monetization)
Xsolla · Montreal
$120,000–$160,000
Jul 16, 2026
Montreal
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hybrid-embedded SRE role focused on the Monetization product domain at a gaming commerce company. Day-to-day work spans owning Kubernetes-based application infrastructure, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, designing SLOs and observability tooling, running production readiness reviews, and supporting incident response — all while staying embedded with product engineering teams. Best suited to engineers with a software development background who are equally at home writing automation and operating high-traffic transactional systems.
Senior level · 3+ years · Remote · Full-time
Pay in the description: $120,000–$160,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 16,200 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 9,700–24,200
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 (11)
The JD title carries no seniority level word; the title states no level. The 3+ years minimum and scope (owning a domain's full application infrastructure, incident response, SLO ownership, capacity planning) support a Senior classification.
SOC classification is Medium confidence. The role explicitly requires writing production-quality automation and shipping backend services (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but also has a strong operational/SRE flavor (on-call rotation, monitoring, incident response) that could fit 15-1244. The balance of 'build and ship code' language tips it to 15-1252.
Go and PHP are listed as examples in the requirements section ('e.g., Go, PHP'); Python, Go, and Bash appear as examples for scripting. One skill is emitted for the backend-language gate with the named alternatives; a separate preferred scripting skill is also captured. These are illustrative examples, not hard gates on a specific language.
Datadog is explicitly preferred ('Datadog preferred') within the requirements block; Prometheus/Grafana are listed as 'also relevant'. Datadog is treated as the primary with alternatives, and the skill is marked required because it sits in the qualifications section.
Terraform and Terragrunt are listed together ('Terraform/Terragrunt') as a single IaC requirement; Terragrunt is captured as an alternative.
GitLab CI and GitHub Actions are listed as 'GitLab CI and/or GitHub Actions' — one skill with the other as an alternative.
GCP is listed as a hard requirement; GKE is called out separately as the managed Kubernetes context. Both are retained as distinct skills.
The 'Nice to Have' section lists Kubernetes, GCP, and HashiCorp certifications — these are marked preferred.
The posting states the role is headquartered in Los Angeles but the caller has declared this fully remote with a national candidate pool; no metro is set.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Google Cloud Platform certifications.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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