Staff Site Reliability Engineer (United States)

US - 100% Remote. Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Bare Metal Linux – Data Center – Networking OTE up to $350k (base + variable), depending on experience Our client is building a cloud platform for high-throughput, compute-heavy workloads. They operate large-scale infrastructure where failure modes are real, capacity is finite, and reliability needs to be engineered, not “handled”. We’re seeking a Senior/Staff SRE who will own production reliability end-to-end for our client: define SLIs/SLOs, run error budget conversations, and ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99). You’ll build automation to kill toil, improve deployment safety (canary/rollback), and turn observability into signal rather than noise. This is a bare-metal environment: think Linux, datacenters, physical fleets, and real hardware constraints, not managed services. You’ll work close to the metal across Kubernetes internals (scheduling, autoscaling behavior, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane), Linux performance (CPU/memory/I/O contention), and network debugging (DNS/TCP/TLS, packet loss, congestion). On-call is part of the job, but success is measured by how much you reduce it. Must requirements: Extensive and r ecent Production Engineering experience running bare metal / on-prem / data center infrastructure (not public cloud only) Deep hands-on expertise in Linux systems debugging and performance at a kernel leve l(CPU, memory, I/O, low-level behaviors) Strong understanding of networking (DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion, troubleshooting under load) Strong Kubernetes experience beyond manifests : scheduler behavior, autoscaling edge cases, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane Experience with Terraform, Docker, Helm , and modern CI/CD practices Strong coding skills are required for this role either in Go, and/or Python , beyond automation scripting - Real engineering capability is a must Experience in Low Latency environments. If you’re looking for complexity and a new place to nerd out on infrastructure optimization, we’d love to hear from you! Location: United States - 100% Remote. Total compensation: OTE up to $350k (base + variable), depending on experience