Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Ironclad
$245-270k
Salary dependent on level + Equity
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2-5 days a week in office
Enterprise software for managing contracts
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Enterprise software for managing contracts
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$245-270k
Salary dependent on level + Equity
More information about location
2-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power the world’s contracts.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of DevOps / SRE experience
- 5+ years of coding experience
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (or similar provider)
- Ability to build resilient infrastructure
- Modern GitOps - Experience with tools like Terraform/Pulumi, CircleCI, ArgoCD
- Experience with modern AI enabled tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Zed
- Troubleshooting and analytical skills, can PR review human and AI generated code
- Strong technical aptitude and exceptional communication skills (written and verbal)
- Desire for helping customers, and the ability to dive deep and learn a new product
- Experience and desire to work cross-functionally
- Team and goal-oriented
- High output; low ego
Desirable
- Experience with multi-region support
- Expert Database Management Experience
- Experience managing AI Infrastructure
- Typescript Experience
What the job involves
- We are seeking a strategic, high-output Staff/Senior Staff SRE to define the future of our cloud platform and champion engineering excellence across Ironclad
- In this role, you will pair deep cloud-native mastery with a passion for mentoring, driving architectural resilience, and solving complex distributed systems at scale
- Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the Site Reliability Engineering team and our broader Cloud Platform
- Define and champion SRE best practices, setting the standard for engineering excellence across the entire organization
- Solve the whole problem. Architecture for resiliency, identify risks, and make it happen
- A proven track record of designing and driving an 'automate-everything' culture (build, test, deploy, monitor)
- Preference for collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders
- Thorough understanding of backup/recovery systems, cloud storage architecture, and distributed systems
- Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Ironclad’s availability, and provide support with internal or customer-facing incidents
- Translate the near, mid, and long-term strategic needs of the business into a scalable, resilient platform roadmap
- Drive critical architectural decisions with a relentless focus on security, scalability, and high performance
- Be a mentor, multiply our team’s output with leadership and guidance
Our take
Business contracting is often inefficient and messy, with approvals required from various stakeholders and many processes still paper-based. Ironclad is a platform that digitises, automates, and streamlines contract workflows, allowing legal teams to focus on legal work rather than paperwork. Its platform features collaborative tools that facilitate business operations and extract and catalogue contract metadata, making information easier to access and act upon. Its enterprise customers include Dropbox, Mastercard, Pixar, Fox, and L’Oréal.
Despite its success, Ironclad faces competition in the $3 billion contract lifecycle management industry from major players like DocuSign and emerging ones like Contractbook. The company recently announced Ironclad Signature, marking its entry into the $25 billion eSignature market. The new feature speeds up the signature process by an estimated 80% and provides summaries and approval histories to users. This new tool is expected to strengthen Ironclad's position in the sell-side contract lifecycle management market.
Additionally, Ironclad introduced value-based pricing, charging only for completed, signed agreements, unlike other providers who charge for every signature packet sent out. Ironclad, backed by investors like Accel, Sequoia, Y Combinator, and BOND, remains committed to innovating and maintaining its leadership in the contract lifecycle management space.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$100m
SERIES D
Total funding: $334.3m
Company benefits
- Dental, and vision insurance
- 401K
- Wellness reimbursement
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave for both primary and secondary caregivers
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
South Beach, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Cai GoGwilt
(Co-Founder & Chief Architect)Studied HSPS at Cambridge, and Computer Science at MIT. Was a Summer Technology Analayst at Goldman Sachs. Worked as a Research Assistant at MIT. Was a Software Engineer at Palantir.
Jason Boehmig
(Co-Founder & Executive Chairman)Former Corporate Lawyer at Fenwick and Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame before founding Ironclad in 2014.
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