Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Material Security is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $213k-$229k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
Level's read on this job
- On Level's scale, this role is Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Postgres among its tools and skills.
- Material Security has 3 other open roles on Level.
- This posting went up in the last few days.
AI in this role
Own infrastructure reliability across GCP, Kubernetes, and Postgres while pioneering reliability practices for agent-first production systems.
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Material Security, you'll own the reliability of the infrastructure every product team builds on, including GCP, Kubernetes, and Postgres across hundreds of GCP projects. This is a software engineering role, where you’ll be building systems and the culture that removes manual on-call work, fixes the underlying causes of alerts, and gives engineers a clear view of system health. You'll work with every team and work with leadership to decide where things go..
Responsibilities
Design and build software that removes manual on-call intervention and recurring sources of toil.
Lead infrastructure projects end to end.
Find where cost-driven limits create latency or reliability problems, and fix the trade-off.
Build tooling that shows system health across our GCP projects at a glance.
Define SLOs with product teams and raise the bar on reliability practice across engineering.
Pioneer reliability engineering for agent-first production systems.
What We’re Looking For
Technical Ability: Solid software engineering fundamentals and raw coding ability. Production code is your default way of solving a problem.
Infrastructure Depth: Hands-on experience running GCP (or a comparable cloud) and Kubernetes at production scale, including autoscaling and capacity management.
Automation First: You have built tools and automation that other engineers depended on, not just runbooks that describe a manual fix.
Ownership: Comfortable driving ambiguous, cross-team reliability work on your own, from diagnosis to a shipped fix.
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Material Security is a remote-first workplace with an office in San Francisco, California.
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Compensation at Material Security is determined by a range of factors, including but not limited to the individual’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected annual compensation range for this position is $213,000-$229,000.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
Material Security is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.
How we rate this
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Material Security rates 20 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Open the description and count.
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Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where site reliability was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where sre was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Google Cloud in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Site Reliability, Infrastructure, Automation, Sre, and Google Cloud. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
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