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Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Glean· Engineering
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Hybrid (Mountain View, CA)$200k - $260kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Lead Site Reliability Engineering role focused on driving technical strategy, reliability, and a high-performing SRE team to ensure services meet SLOs and operate resilient, automated production environments in a hybrid cloud.

Responsibilities

  • Technical Leadership and Mentorship: Drive technical excellence, establish incident management best practices, optimize performance, automate systems, influence architectural decisions, and align with engineering leadership and cross-functional partners.
  • Ensure High Availability: Build and maintain resilient cloud architectures, monitor performance, and resolve bottlenecks or failures.
  • Incident Management: Participate in on-call rotation, foster blameless postmortems, and optimize on-call processes for sustainability.
  • Automation and Tooling: Develop and maintain automation scripts, tools, and processes for deployment, monitoring, and management.
  • Performance Optimization: Optimize cloud infrastructure and applications for performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
  • Security and Compliance: Collaborate with security engineers to implement best practices and ensure compliance with security standards.
  • Monitoring and Alerting: Design and configure advanced monitoring, set up alerts, create dashboards and playbooks for production on-call.
  • Software Development Consultation: Engage in full software development lifecycle, participate in design reviews, and provide SRE insights for architecture and launches.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of experience in a senior-level Site Reliability Engineering or similar role, with cloud-based services and infrastructure experience.
  • 5+ years of software development experience in one or more programming languages.
  • 3+ years of experience managing people or teams, leading projects, and designing and troubleshooting distributed systems in the Cloud.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, or Azure).
  • Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes; familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools.
  • Solid understanding of networking, security principles, and best SRE and security practices.
  • Proficiency with monitoring and alerting tools for proactive issue detection and response.

Skills

Required:Technical LeadershipIncident ManagementAutomation and SRE toolingCloud architecturesKubernetesDockerMonitoring and AlertingSecurity and Compliance
Nice to have:Terraform

Benefits

  • Medical, Vision, and Dental coverage
  • generous time-off policy
  • 401k plan with employer contributions
  • home office improvement stipend
  • annual education and wellness stipends
  • regular company events and daily healthy lunches
Last updated Oct 14, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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