Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – CloudVision as a Service (CVaaS) at Arista Networks
Santa Clara, CA
$101,000–$161,000from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Santa Clara, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits within a global SRE team responsible for running a Kubernetes-native network management and telemetry SaaS platform on Google Cloud. Day-to-day work spans infrastructure automation, distributed database operations, observability, disaster recovery, CI/CD, and on-call incident response. It suits engineers with at least five years of software development or systems experience who are comfortable working across Golang, Python, and cloud-native tooling at scale.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 18,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 11,000–27,500
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 (10)
The JD accepts 'relevant experience' in lieu of a BS/MS in Computer Science, so no formal degree is hard-gated.
Python and Golang are listed together with 'and/or', making them interchangeable gates; either satisfies the proficiency requirement. Both are emitted as a single paired requirement.
Bash is listed separately under requirements as a distinct scripting expectation ('comfortable in Bash and/or other scripting languages') and is treated as a hard gate.
Kubernetes is called out as a hard architectural reality ('CloudVision stack is built entirely Kubernetes-native') and appears throughout the requirements context; treated as a hard gate.
GCP and GKE are explicitly marked 'preferred' in the posting and are listed as separate preferred skills given they are distinct platforms (GCP = cloud platform, GKE = managed Kubernetes service).
Ansible and Pulumi appear in the 'Our technical stack includes but not limited to' narrative section, not in a requirements block; treated as preferred. They are interchangeable IaC/automation tools in this context.
CI/CD appears only in the 'What You'll Do' responsibilities list (Change Management - CI/CD), not in a requirements block; treated as preferred.
The role title carries no seniority level word; the title states no level. The 5+ years requirement and scope (leading projects, on-call, postmortems, distributed SaaS) support a Senior classification.
The alt SOC 15-1244 is noted because SRE roles straddle software development and systems operations; however, the JD's emphasis on software engineering background, writing automation, and building distributed systems points clearly to 15-1252.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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