Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Pinterest ensuring reliability of cloud-native platforms on AWS and Kubernetes. Collaborating with teams to improve operational practices and incident responses.

Posted 7/30/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $139,764 - $287,749 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps practices, with a strong focus on Kubernetes management, AWS operations, and CI/CD automation. Proven ability to enhance infrastructure reliability and performance through effective incident management, observability, and collaboration across teams.

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Kubernetes ManagementAWS OperationsGitOps with ArgoCDTerraform/TerragruntCI/CD Automation with GitHub Actions

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Hard Skills

Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsKubernetesAWSTerraformArgoCDHelmBash ScriptingPython ScriptingCI/CD Pipelines

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationOwnership MindsetTroubleshootingCritical Evaluation

Tools & Technologies

GitHub ActionsTerraform/TerragruntArgoCDKubernetesAWS

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure ReliabilityObservabilityIncident ResponseMulti-TenancyIAM

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of production infrastructure and platform services
Operating and scaling Kubernetes platforms, including governance and support for multi-tenant workloads
Managing GitOps-based deployment workflows using ArgoCD and Helm
Driving infrastructure provisioning and change management through Terraform/Terragrunt
Building and supporting CI/CD automation and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions
Leading incident response efforts, root cause analysis, and post-incident improvement initiatives
Reducing operational toil through scripting, tooling, and process automation
Advancing observability practices across logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting
Supporting secure secrets integration, IAM-aware operations, and platform guardrails
Partnering closely with application, security, and platform teams to improve reliability and delivery outcomes

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure
Strong hands-on experience operating AWS in production environments
Deep expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster operations, troubleshooting, workload reliability, and platform administration
Proven experience with Kubernetes multi-tenancy, including namespaces, RBAC, quotas, policies, and tenant isolation patterns
Experience implementing and operating ArgoCD within a GitOps delivery model
Strong hands-on experience with Helm
Strong experience with Terraform/Terragrunt for infrastructure provisioning and environment management
Solid scripting and automation skills using Bash and/or Python
Experience building, maintaining, or supporting CI/CD pipelines, ideally using GitHub Actions
Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux, containers, IAM, networking, and distributed systems
Experience with monitoring, alerting, and observability in production environments
Demonstrated ownership mindset with experience handling incidents, resolving production issues, and driving follow-through after outages
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering, security, and platform teams
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, a related field or equivalent experience
Demonstrated ability to use AI to improve speed and quality in your day-to-day workflow for relevant outputs
Strong track record of critical evaluation and verification of AI-assisted work (e.g., testing, source-checking, data validation, peer review)
High integrity and ownership: you protect sensitive data, avoid over-reliance on AI, and remain accountable for final decisions and deliverables.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Flexibility to do your best work
Professional development opportunities