Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Filevine
$235,000–$275,000
Jul 31, 2026
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Sep 25, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Staff SRE at a legal-tech AI company, owning the technical roadmap across Observability & Alerting and Platform Infrastructure. The role sets the engineering standard for production reliability at scale — building automation, self-service platform tooling, and observability systems, while mentoring engineers and partnering with leadership on reliability strategy. It suits a deeply experienced SRE who writes production-grade code and can drive org-wide technical direction without managing people directly.
Staff level · 12+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,650 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 2,200–6,600
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).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 2, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting does not specify a work location or city. The role appears to be remote or location-flexible based on the absence of any geographic requirement.
The qualifications require 'a major container-orchestration platform, preferably Kubernetes' — Kubernetes is named as the preferred tool with a clear gate on the capability, so it is treated as required with the broader category implied as an alternative.
Python, Go, and Bash are listed together as acceptable languages ('Python, Go, Bash, or another general-purpose language'). Python is emitted as the primary required skill with Go and Bash as alternatives; Go and Bash are also listed separately as preferred to surface them individually.
New Relic and Datadog are listed as examples of an observability platform ('such as New Relic, Datadog, or equivalent') within the qualifications block — treated as a required capability with the named tools as interchangeable options.
Experience in a regulated environment (FedRAMP, CJIS, HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI) is explicitly described as 'strongly preferred', not required.
AIOps knowledge is described in the 'Who You Are' narrative section rather than the formal qualifications block, so it is treated as preferred.
SOC code is Medium confidence: the role is primarily about building automation, tooling, and platform infrastructure (pointing to 15-1252 Software Developers), but has a meaningful operational/systems-administration dimension that could support 15-1244. The explicit emphasis on writing production code and IaC tips the balance to 15-1252.
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