Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Rippling — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Rippling
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 175000–235000 / year
- Posted: 2026-05-23
About this role
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Rippling - San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
Salary: $175,000 - $235,000 per year
About Rippling:
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. Rippling is the world's first workforce platform.
About the Role:
We're looking for a Senior SRE to help us build and scale our infrastructure to support rapid growth. You'll work on ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of Rippling's platform, which serves thousands of businesses and millions of employees.
What You'll Do:
- Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Develop and improve monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system reliability and performance
- Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes
- Lead incident management and post-mortem analysis to prevent recurring issues
- Optimize cloud infrastructure costs while maintaining high availability
- Build internal tooling to improve developer productivity and deployment velocity
- Participate in on-call rotation and respond to production incidents
- Define and track SLOs/SLIs across critical services
- Mentor junior engineers on SRE best practices
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS preferred)
- Expert-level experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Rust)
- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
- Deep understanding of networking, Linux systems, and distributed systems
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Strong incident management and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent communication skills for cross-team collaboration
Nice to Have:
- Experience with service mesh (Istio, Envoy)
- Background in security engineering or compliance (SOC 2, ISO 27001)
- Experience with database administration (PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch)
- Contributions to open-source projects
Benefits:
- Competitive salary, equity, and bonuses
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote-friendly with office in SF
- Learning and development budget
- 401(k) with company match