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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** Happyrobot Inc. - **Location:** San Francisco, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Delivery Pipeline, Grafana, Backend, Kubernetes, Sentry - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/site-reliability-engineer-happyrobot-inc-8304671 ## About the Role * 3+ years of hands-on experience debugging production systems (logs, traces, incidents, etc.) * Strong problem-solving skills and ability to dive into unfamiliar backend codebases * Strong Go and Kubernetes experience. * Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry) * Clear, calm communication under pressure - especially during live incidents Nice-to-Have * Experience working with distributed systems or services at scale * Built or maintained internal tooling for on-call teams or reliability workflows * Familiarity with deployment pipelines, CI/CD, or infra-as-code * Experience improving system observability (e.g., custom metrics, traces, log pipelines) ## Description We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to take the lead on scaling our operational resilience as we grow. You'll own the stability, observability, and debugging workflows that keep our systems running smoothly. You'll be the go-to person for untangling complex failures in real time, designing tools that turn chaos into clarity, and helping us shift from reactive to proactive operations. This is a high-impact, high-trust role where you'll shape how reliability is done - reducing incident load, building internal tooling, and directly improving developer focus and system uptime. If you love getting to the root of hard problems and making systems (and teams) stronger, this is your moment., We take full responsibility for our work, outcomes, and team success. No excuses, no blame-shifting - if something needs fixing, we own it and make it better. This means stepping up, even when it's not "your job." If a ball is dropped, we pick it up. If a customer is unhappy, we fix it. If a process is broken, we redesign it. 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