Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Primer
$180-230k
Automating data analysis
Open for applications
Automating data analysis
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$180-230k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make the world a safer place.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience in production systems engineering, SRE, or DevOps roles supporting large-scale, mission-critical platforms
- 10+ years experience with Linux systems administration and Bash/Linux scripting
- 5+ years experience with observability tools (monitoring, logging, tracing) such as Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus, ELK, or similar
- 5+ years experience with microservices architectures, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
- 2+ years experience in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go) with a strong focus on building automation and tooling
- Solid understanding of cloud networking (e.g., mesh networking, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, VPNs)
Desirable
- Experience building or running distributed systems that include GPU heavy workloads or LLMs
- Strong knowledge of the AWS platform with experience in cost optimization and capacity planning
- Track record of leading incident response efforts and conducting detailed postmortems
- Security awareness and familiarity with secure coding, encryption, and compliance best practices
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex topics to both technical and non-technical audiences
What the job involves
- As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer, you will be a key member of our Infrastructure team, dedicated to designing, building, and maintaining fault-tolerant systems
- You will collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to define and meet service level objectives (SLOs), implement and enhance observability, and contribute to the evolution of our Engineering practices
- Your expertise in observability, capacity planning, automation, and incident management will be critical to sustaining our mission-critical operations and delivering a seamless experience for developers and customers alike
- Architect, Build, and Scale: Design and architect our solutions for continuous availability and scalability in production
- Uphold Reliability Standards: Define and review Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets. Work with engineering teams to ensure new services or features meet reliability and performance targets
- Drive Automation & Tooling: Develop tools, frameworks, and platforms to streamline repetitive tasks (e.g., monitoring, incident response). Write software that improves reliability and security (e.g., automated testing, canary deployments)
- Incident Management & Postmortems: Participate in on-call (Livesite) rotations; lead and coordinate incident responses. Conduct thorough post-incident reviews, share learnings, and implement improvements to mitigate future occurrences
- Observability Best Practices: Develop and maintain best-in-class monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to provide actionable insights into the health of infrastructure and services. Advise teams on instrumentation best practices, ensuring comprehensive coverage of critical paths and dependencies
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, software engineers, and security teams to deliver end-to-end solutions with reliability built in
Our take
Primer is a leading technology company specializing in advanced machine learning. Since its founding, Primer has developed a suite of products built on a core set of computational engines: Structure, Ensemble, Event, Context, Difference, and Story. These engines form the foundation of Primer's analytic pipeline, enabling powerful document analysis and insight generation across multiple languages.
The modular architecture of Primer's platform allows for continuous development and improvement, providing customers with access to a diverse range of document types. By automating the extraction of information, large-scale, insight identification, and the generation of readable text and graphics, Primer makes complex data accessible and actionable.
This technology has been deployed by some of the world's largest government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and financial institutes. Its solutions have been used to address critical challenges, such as helping the Pentagon assess disinformation campaigns and identify Russian interference in Azerbaijan.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$69m
SERIES D
Jun 2021
$110m
SERIES C
Total funding: $237.1m
Company benefits
- Health and wellness: Our comprehensive benefits prioritize the well-being of you and your family, offering premium medical, dental, vision, and life insurance. Additionally, our wellness initiatives encompass mental health support and fitness incentives
- Programs for parents: Birthing parents receive up to 18 weeks of fully paid leave, while non-birthing parents enjoy 8 weeks. We also provide coverage for in vitro fertilization and egg-freezing
- Home-office stipend: All new hires are offered stipends for home office setup and mobile phone and home internet expenses
- Flexible time off: We value rest and rejuvenation outside of work and offer generous and flexible time off in addition to 12 paid holidays
- Retirement/401K: Start now to save for your future. We offer financial benefits and services to give you financial peace of mind
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sean Moriarty
(CEO)Lead Independent Director at Eventbrite and Member of the Board of Directors at CoachArt. Former CEO and Board Director at Leaf Group.
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