Senior Site Reliability Engineer

📋 Job Overview

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Material Security, you'll own the reliability of the infrastructure every product team builds on, including GCP, Kubernetes, and Postgres across hundreds of GCP projects. This is a software engineering role, where you’ll be building systems and the culture that removes manual on-call work, fixes the underlying causes of alerts, and gives engineers a clear view of system health. You'll work with every team and work with leadership to decide where things go.

🏢 About Material Security

Material Security is a remote-first workplace with an office in San Francisco, California.

🎯 The Role

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Material Security, you'll own the reliability of the infrastructure every product team builds on, including GCP, Kubernetes, and Postgres across hundreds of GCP projects. This is a software engineering role, where you’ll be building systems and the culture that removes manual on-call work, fixes the underlying causes of alerts, and gives engineers a clear view of system health. You'll work with every team and work with leadership to decide where things go.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design and build software that removes manual on-call intervention and recurring sources of toil.
• Lead infrastructure projects end to end.
• Find where cost-driven limits create latency or reliability problems, and fix the trade-off.
• Build tooling that shows system health across our GCP projects at a glance.
• Define SLOs with product teams and raise the bar on reliability practice across engineering.
• Pioneer reliability engineering for agent-first production systems.

📌 Required Qualifications

• Technical Ability: Solid software engineering fundamentals and raw coding ability. Production code is your default way of solving a problem.
• Infrastructure Depth: Hands-on experience running GCP (or a comparable cloud) and Kubernetes at production scale, including autoscaling and capacity management.
• Automation First: You have built tools and automation that other engineers depended on, not just runbooks that describe a manual fix.
• Ownership: Comfortable driving ambiguous, cross-team reliability work on your own, from diagnosis to a shipped fix.

🎁 Benefits

Compensation at Material Security is determined by a range of factors, including but not limited to the individual’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected annual compensation range for this position is $213,000-$229,000.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Material Security is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.