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# Staff Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Ironclad, Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $220,000.0 - $235,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Storage, Computer Programming, Cursor (Graphical User Interface Elements), DevOps, Distributed Systems, Octopus Deploy, Reliability Engineering, TypeScript, AI Infrastructure, Circleci, Pulumi, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** June 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/53256f52-ff46-43bc-a09f-46d0e9f111f8

## About the Role

* 8+ years of DevOps / SRE experience
 * 5+ years of coding experience
 * Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (or similar provider)
 * Ability to build resilient infrastructure
 * Modern GitOps - Experience with tools like Terraform/Pulumi, CircleCI, ArgoCD
 * Experience with modern AI enabled tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Zed
 * Troubleshooting and analytical skills, can PR review human and AI generated code
 * Strong technical aptitude and exceptional communication skills (written and verbal)
 * Desire for helping customers, and the ability to dive deep and learn a new product.
 * Experience and desire to work cross-functionally
 * Team and goal-oriented.
 * High output; low ego

Bonus Points if you have:

 * Experience with multi-region support
 * Expert Database Management Experience
 * Experience managing AI Infrastructure
 * Typescript Experience

## Description

This is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.

We are seeking a strategic, high-output Staff/Senior Staff SRE to define the future of our cloud platform and champion engineering excellence across Ironclad. In this role, you will pair deep cloud-native mastery with a passion for mentoring, driving architectural resilience, and solving complex distributed systems at scale.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 * Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the Site Reliability Engineering team and our broader Cloud Platform
 * Define and champion SRE best practices, setting the standard for engineering excellence across the entire organization
 * Solve the whole problem. Architecture for resiliency, identify risks, and make it happen.
 * A proven track record of designing and driving an 'automate-everything' culture (build, test, deploy, monitor)
 * Preference for collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
 * Thorough understanding of backup/recovery systems, cloud storage architecture, and distributed systems
 * Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Ironclad's availability, and provide support with internal or customer-facing incidents
 * Translate the near, mid, and long-term strategic needs of the business into a scalable, resilient platform roadmap
 * Drive critical architectural decisions with a relentless focus on security, scalability, and high performance
 * Be a mentor, multiply our team's output with leadership and guidance


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