Senior Site Reliability Engineer
This is a pivotal SRE role at a high-growth startup that is defining the incident management category. It combines deep software engineering with infrastructure architecture, offering the chance to build the reliability foundation for a platform used by tech giants. It is a perfect fit for someone who wants to move away from 'maintenance' and into 'creation'.
Rootly
San Francisco, California, United States · Posted 16 April 2026
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Overview
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About Rootly
Rootly is a small business working in software development / incident management, based in San Francisco, California, United States.
Software Development / Incident Management
Small
San Francisco, California, United States
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Key Responsibilities
- Embed with product squads to enhance service reliability and observability
- Design and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems
- Develop automation tools to improve engineering velocity and reduce manual work
- Lead capacity planning and infrastructure scaling efforts
- Advocate for reliability and performance standards across the entire engineering organization
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years in SRE, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience in production environments
- Deep technical expertise in cloud-native infrastructure and distributed systems
- Proven track record of managing observability, performance tuning, and scaling strategies
- Experience defining and managing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets
- Ability to write high-quality code to automate manual processes and eliminate toil
Preferred
- Experience in a high-growth startup environment
- Previous leadership or foundational role in an SRE team
- Strong background in developer experience (DevEx) improvements
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Perks
Benefits & perks
- Radical transparency (monthly financial reviews)
- Opportunity to work with high-profile global customers
- Early-stage equity and leadership influence
- Fast-paced, mission-driven work environment
- Weekly public recognition of work via changelogs
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