Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Unqork empowers enterprises to accelerate growth by rapidly building, testing, and running applications that are designed to be AI-native. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations in highly regulated industries, these applications become more secure over time while significantly reducing technical debt—allowing businesses to focus on innovation rather than maintenance. Unqork’s customers include Goldman Sachs, Marsh, BlackRock, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  

At Unqork, we value inclusive and innovative thinkers who boldly challenge the status quo. We encourage you to apply! 

The Impact U will make:

• Report to our VP of Engineering
• Observability Architecture & Strategy: Define and own end-to-end observability architecture, establishing standards for instrumentation and telemetry while leading OpenTelemetry adoption.
• Reliability & Operational Excellence: Use telemetry to proactively manage reliability risks, define SLIs/SLOs, and shift the organization from reactive response to proactive engineering.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as a Staff-level IC providing architectural guidance and mentorship across SRE, DevOps, and application teams.
• System Insight: Improve how the organization understands system behavior and detects/resolves incidents
• Operational Impact: Directly influence platform uptime, customer experience, engineering velocity, and operational efficiency
• Data-Driven Decisions: Enable better decision-making regarding performance, scalability, and reliability through data.

What U bring:

• Extensive Experience: 8+ years in SRE or Platform engineering, with a proven track record of operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Technical Mastery: Deep hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and observability platforms (AWS preferred), plus proficiency in Go, Python, or Java.
• Strategic Mindset: A systems thinker who can influence across teams without formal authority, balancing strong technical opinions with pragmatism and cost awareness.
• Environment Scope: Operate across a highly distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-native environment.
• Architectural Standards: Define observability standards, architectures, and best practices as a Staff-level individual contributor.

 

Compensation, Benefits, & Perks

💻 Work from home with a remote-first community

🏝 Unlimited PTO (and the encouragement to use it)

📝 Student loan payback program

🏥 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you and your dependents

💸 Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

🏠 Monthly stipend toward your WFH setup, vacation, development and more

💰 Employer-sponsored 401(k) with contribution match

🏋🏻‍♀️ Subsidized ClassPass Membership

🍼 Generous Paid Parental Leave 

💲 Hiring Ranges:

• Tier 1: $175,000 - $215,000 base salary
• Tier 2: $160,000 - $200,000 base salary

Unqork employs a market-driven approach to establish compensation ranges. In addition to a base salary, employees may also be eligible to receive a target incentive and company equity in the form of stock options.

An employee’s compensation within the range provided above depends on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, their location, role, skillset, level of experience, and similar peer salaries.

As a remote-first company, Unqork incorporates a geographic differential into our compensation structure, depending on the candidate’s location. We utilize a tiered system—Tier 1 and Tier 2—to accurately reflect local market rates and ensure our compensation packages are both fair and competitive.

Our geographic tiers are defined as follows:

• Tier 1: New York Metro, Seattle Metro, San Francisco Bay Area 
• Tier 2: All other US and US territory locations 

Unqork embraces a culture of security and privacy awareness by consistently safeguarding sensitive information, adhering to company policies, and actively participating in training and initiatives to protect our data and the privacy of our stakeholders. 

Unqork is an equal opportunity employer. We will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, nationality, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, disability or age.

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