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# Staff Site Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** TransUnion LLC
- **Location:** Remote, OR, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $112,500.0 - $187,500.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Engineering, Linux, Load Testing, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Systems Integration, Datadog, Google Cloud, Cloud Platform System, Large Language Models, Grafana, Kubernetes, Pagerduty
- **Published:** September 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/usabbca99e57cc6ceea4e03b7c3cbb020b/eaa

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related fields - with a proven track record of designing and delivering at enterprise scale.
 * Deep, hands-on expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes (K8s) - running high-volume, high-availability workloads with 99.999% reliability targets.
 * Expert-level command of monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) - you define what good looks like.
 * Deep Linux expertise - from kernel internals and system performance tuning to hardening and troubleshooting at the OS level in production environments..
 * Hands-on experience designing and integrating AI/ML-powered solutions into cloud-native platforms - including familiarity with LLM orchestration, vector databases, model serving infrastructure, and AI observability - with the ability to evaluate emerging tools and translate them into reliable, production-grade capabilities.

## Description

* Recognized expert across multiple systems; actively contributes to architectural and strategic decisions around major platform components.
 * Leads research, testing, implementation, and continuous improvement for new systems and tooling.
 * Performs complex, high-impact work including capacity planning, load testing, and security improvements.
 * Fully participates in the team's on-call rotation; models calm, effective, and blameless incident response.
 * Serves as a significant technical contributor during major incidents and problem resolution.
 * Plans and leads high-risk maintenance events with minimal to no customer impact.
 * Elevates team standards through new tooling, processes, procedures, and effective communication.
 * Capable of stepping in to lead and represent the team - a trusted resource during transitions or coverage gaps.
 * Sets new professional benchmarks in technical quality, engineering culture, and cross-functional collaboration.


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