Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United StatesAll locationsChicago, Illinois, United StatesSan Francisco, California, United StatesNew York, New York, United States Hybrid
$220,000–$235,000 a yearJobFig found this opening at its original source and checks that it remains available.
About the role
This is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events. We are seeking a strategic, high-output Staff SRE to define the future of our cloud platform and champion engineering excellence across Ironclad. In this role, you will pair deep cloud-native mastery with a passion for mentoring, driving architectural resilience, and solving complex distributed systems at scale.
What you'll bring
- High output
- 8+ years of DevOps / SRE experience
- 5+ years of coding experience
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (or similar provider)
- Ability to build resilient infrastructure
- Modern GitOps - Experience with tools like Terraform/Pulumi, CircleCI, ArgoCD
- Experience with modern AI enabled tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Zed
- Troubleshooting and analytical skills, can PR review human and AI generated code
- Strong technical aptitude and exceptional communication skills (written and verbal)
- Desire for helping customers, and the ability to dive deep and learn a new product.
- Experience and desire to work cross-functionally
- Team and goal-oriented.