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# Staff Platform and Reliability Engineer

- **Company:** Sinclair Inc.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Computer Programming, Computer Networks, Cursor, Disaster Recovery, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Uptime, Reliability Engineering, TypeScript, Istio, Delivery Pipeline, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Claude
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_0399fb8a93e4b6304e7b4da509b99c3a

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
 * 5-10 years as an IC platform engineer or site reliability engineer
 * Owned infrastructure security in production (IAM, secrets, network policy, audit/compliance), ideally in a regulated environment
 * Deep production Kubernetes on AWS, including service mesh and GitOps-based delivery
 * Hands-on experience managing uptime, reliability, SLOs, and error budgets
 * Strong programming in TypeScript or Python
 * Daily, deep use of frontier AI tools (Claude, Cursor, etc.) in your workflow

## Description

* Own reliability and security for a production agentic AI platform held to a 99.99% uptime bar
 * Own SLOs, error budgets, incident response, observability, and disaster recovery
 * Get into the infrastructure and delivery pipeline early to make sure fixes ship the right way
 * Identify reliability and delivery gaps, present a plan directly to the CEO and CTO, and close them
 * Improve uptime and deployment speed without compromising security
 * Secure the AWS and Kubernetes platform and produce compliance evidence (SOC 2, NCUA/FFIEC, GLBA)