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Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)
Sierra Technologies Ltd · 🇺🇸 San Francisco, CA
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- What Sierra Technologies Ltd paid sponsored hires in similar roles10 certified filings for “Software Engineer” (Software Developers) in CA: $200k–$230k, median $228k. Most were filed at wage level III (70%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
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About the role
ABOUT US Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. WHAT YOU'LL DO As a Software Engineer on our Site Reliability team at Sierra, you will be responsible for defining and building the foundation of reliability, observability, and scalability across Sierra’s AI-driven infrastructure. You’ll partner closely with our core engineering and product teams to ensure our systems are highly available, efficient, and built for growth. - Own Sierra’s observability stack—monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing—to give engineers clear visibility into system health and performance. - Partner with product and platform engineers to design systems that are reliable and scalable from day one—not as an afterthought. - Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure (AWS) using Terraform and modern DevOps tooling. - Improve the reliability and scalability of our LLM deployments, ensuring robust, performant, and cost-effective operation. - Lead improvements to deployment pipelines, CI/CD tooling, and incident management processes to reduce downtime and response time. - Define the foundation of SRE practices at Sierra, influencing culture, tooling, and best practices across the engineering org. WHAT YOU'LL BRING - 5+ years of hands-on experience in Site Reliability or Infrastructure engineering roles for complex SaaS or cloud-based systems. - Experience designing for availability, scalability, and reliability at both infrastructure and application layers. - Deep experience with Terraform, AWS services, container orchestration, and cloud networking (including IAM and VPC architecture). - Strong background in observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar). - Experience working with enterprise customers and familiarity with their compliance and networking needs along with integration patterns. - Comfortable working in fast-moving environments and collaborating across product, ML, and core engineering teams. - Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience. EVEN BETTER... - Experience with LLM infrastructure — optimizing inference performance, managing fine-tuned models, or large-scale model deployment. - Past experience in an early-stage startup environment, especially defining SRE culture and tooling from scratch. - Familiarity with incident management automation or self-healing infrastructure patterns. OUR VALUES - Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empath