Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Nectar Group

Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for the reliability and scalability of Nectar's AI-native social operating system. Collaborating with engineering teams to define reliable infrastructure for growing production systems.

Posted 5/30/2026full-timePalo Alto • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $400,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the reliability and scalability of our production systems as they handle rapidly growing volumes of social data and real-time AI workloads
Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, and build the observability, alerting, and on-call practices to support them
Lead incident response and blameless postmortems, then turn what we learn into systemic improvements that prevent recurrence
Improve performance, cost efficiency, and capacity planning across our cloud infrastructure as the platform scales
Harden our infrastructure-as-code, deployment, and CI/CD pipelines for resilience and repeatability
Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability into system design and raise the operational bar across the org

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience operating production systems as an SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineer
Experience scaling databases, data infrastructure, or complex production platforms under significant load
Hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar) and infrastructure-as-code tooling
Solid programming skills for building automation, tooling, and operational services
Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership and autonomy
A reliability-first mindset balanced with pragmatism about velocity and cost

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation and early equity
Health, vision, and dental benefits + 401(k) match
Clear career growth opportunities as the company scales
Free lunch in the heart of University Ave. in Palo Alto
Deep exposure to cutting-edge AI tooling and the opportunity to shape how brands use it
A collaborative, ambitious team defining a new category of AI-native marketing infrastructure

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Hard Skills & Tools

SREinfrastructure engineeringplatform engineeringcloud infrastructureinfrastructure-as-codeCI/CD pipelinesautomationtoolingcapacity planningperformance optimization

Soft Skills

leadershipincident responseblameless postmortemssystemic improvementsreliability-first mindsetpragmatismownershipautonomycollaborationcommunication