Sierra
Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)
$230K–$390K
San Francisco, CA · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 21, 2025
- Experience
- 5+ years.
- Education
- Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
About the job
Build and improve Sierra’s reliability, observability, and scalable infrastructure for its AI-driven systems and LLM deployments.
What you'll do
- Own monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing across the observability stack.
- Design and implement reliable, scalable, and secure AWS infrastructure using Terraform; improve LLM deployment reliability and efficiency.
- Improve deployment pipelines, CI/CD tooling, and incident management, and establish SRE practices across engineering.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on Site Reliability or Infrastructure engineering experience for complex SaaS or cloud-based systems.
- Experience designing for availability, scalability, and reliability at infrastructure and application layers.
- Deep experience with Terraform, AWS services, container orchestration, and cloud networking, including IAM and VPC architecture.
- Strong observability systems background and enterprise customer experience, including familiarity with compliance, networking needs, and integration patterns.
Nice to have
- LLM infrastructure experience, such as inference optimization, fine-tuned model management, or large-scale model deployment.
- Early-stage startup SRE experience or familiarity with incident management automation and self-healing infrastructure.
Pay
$230K – $390K USD base salary
Tools
AWS, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, LLM
AI focus
Improve reliability, performance, and cost-effectiveness of LLM deployments; preferred experience includes inference optimization, fine-tuned models, and large-scale model deployment.
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