Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Instrumental, Inc.•Palo Alto, CA

102d•$175,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Instrumental is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure behind its manufacturing acceleration platform. The platform collects and transforms manufacturing data—including images, test logs, bill-of-materials data, performance information, and repair cycles—and uses proprietary machine-learning technology to help technical users improve manufacturing yield, throughput, and product ramp. The role focuses on the performance, scalability, reliability, automation, and security of the platform and its infrastructure. The engineer will build and maintain secure, reliable infrastructure, integrate security practices into infrastructure design and operations, and implement monitoring and alerting for potential threats. The role also involves measuring and improving performance, reliability, and efficiency, and introducing AI tools and processes into development and operations workflows. The position is within a collaborative, supportive, growing team. Access to items and data developed under U.S. government contracts is restricted to U.S. citizens and Green Card holders. The representative annual base salary range for the Bay Area is $175,000–$205,000; level and salary are evaluated through the interview process. Instrumental offers health, vision, dental, commuter plans, and parental leave.

Requirements

At least 5 years of DevOps or SRE experience deploying and operating commercial SaaS platforms on public cloud infrastructure; AWS is preferred.
Expert knowledge of Linux, shell, containerization, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred), monitoring, logging, and APM tools.
Demonstrated ability to take initiative and independently drive impactful projects to completion efficiently.
Comfort working with ambiguity, a fast pace, and frequent pivots in a startup environment, and a track record of creating clarity for teams.
Experience introducing and integrating AI tools or processes into development and operations workflows.
Demonstrated skill in setting, iterating on, and measuring KPIs for performance, reliability, and efficiency.
U.S. citizenship or Green Card holder status, because the position requires access to items and data subject to U.S. government contract dissemination controls.

Nice To Haves

Experience with network or application security and compliance.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain secure, reliable infrastructure that protects company and customer information.
Partner with Engineering and Security teams to incorporate security best practices into infrastructure design, deployment, and operations.
Implement security monitoring and alerting to detect and respond to potential threats.
Maintain and continuously improve infrastructure security standards and practices.
Set, iterate on, and measure KPIs to ensure ongoing performance, reliability, and efficiency.
Introduce and integrate AI tools and processes into development and operations workflows.
Automate repetitive or error-prone work.
Own operational problems and follow through when systems are broken.