Staff Reliability Engineer

New York, NY Full-time On-site $272.9k — $369.1k per year 10/17/2026 Job ID: 000431
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Site Reliability Engineering Reliability and infrastructure strategy Observability Capacity planning Monitoring strategy

Summary

What you’ll impact

The Staff Site Reliability Engineer is responsible for architecting and owning reliability and infrastructure strategy across multiple teams and services. The role leverages observability tools, capacity planning, monitoring systems, and SLI/SLO frameworks to ensure resilience of complex distributed systems. Key duties include leading incident management, designing escalation processes, driving post‑mortem improvements, and championing toil reduction and on‑call sustainability. The engineer collaborates with engineering partners to lead design reviews, raise deployment safety standards, and disseminate best practices through runbooks and knowledge sharing.

Responsibilities

What you'll do

  • Architect and own reliability and infrastructure strategy across multiple teams and services
  • Own the observability, capacity planning, and monitoring strategy for complex distributed systems
  • Define and evolve SLI/SLO frameworks, error budgets, and production readiness standards org-wide
  • Lead incident management practices, escalation design, and drive systemic improvements from post-mortems
  • Champion toil reduction, on-call sustainability, and long-term system resilience
  • Partner across engineering to lead design reviews and raise the bar on deployment safety and operational quality

Requirements

What you’ll bring

  • Deep experience operating, designing, and improving large-scale production systems
  • A technical leader who drives reliability outcomes across teams, not just within your own
  • Strong architectural judgment for distributed systems: failure modes, scalability, and graceful degradation
  • Effective communicator who spreads knowledge through post-mortems, runbooks, and design guidance

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