Panera Bread
Sr Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer
$112K–$134K
Saint Louis Support Center · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 8, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years; experience may be in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps.
About the job
Leads the design and improvement of reliability practices and systems for critical platforms, focusing on availability, resilience, performance, and operational efficiency.
What you'll do
- Establish and govern SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability standards.
- Build automation, infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability capabilities to improve service reliability.
- Lead reliability reviews, resiliency testing, incident analysis, and technical guidance across engineering teams.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or DevOps supporting large-scale, highly available systems.
- Experience designing, operating, and optimizing cloud-native and distributed systems in public cloud environments.
- Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, plus Kubernetes and container platforms.
- Experience with observability, CI/CD, and software engineering or scripting; named languages include Python, Go, Java, and Bash.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems supporting millions of transactions or users.
- Experience with observability/APM platforms such as Dynatrace, Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or AppDynamics.
Pay
$111,808 - $134,169 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
GCP, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Java, Bash
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