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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Cinder Compute
Own SLO-driven reliability for a high-traffic payments API; lead incident response.
- Remote
- $185,000 - $240,000
- full time
- 4d ago
Roles · Site Reliability Engineer
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Last updated: May 18, 2026 · By Ngozi Eze, Talent Market Analyst
Median Site Reliability Engineer salary
$158,000
per year, US
Example site reliability engineers on Workzil
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Top hiring metros
San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New York, NY
A site reliability engineer (SRE) applies software-engineering practices to keep production systems fast, available, and observable. SREs define SLOs, manage error budgets, automate toil, lead incident response, and partner with product engineers on reliability work. SRE jobs are concentrated at scaled platforms where downtime is expensive.
In day-to-day terms, most site reliability engineers spend time on a mix of focused execution, collaboration, and review. Typical responsibilities include:
Employers typically expect: Strong production-engineering background in one cloud; Programming experience in Go, Python, or similar; Deep familiarity with Linux, networking, and distributed systems; Experience running Kubernetes in production — and look for evidence in your resume and portfolio. For a deeper official overview, see the BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook entry for this role.
Workzil aggregates site reliability engineer jobs from 50+ job boards in real time and ranks them by how well they match your profile. Below are example listings — created to illustrate the kind of site reliability engineer roles you can expect to see on the live feed. Click through to the full Workzil job search to see today's real openings.
Cinder Compute
Own SLO-driven reliability for a high-traffic payments API; lead incident response.
Maelstrom Networks
Lead the edge SRE team — anycast, BGP, and global routing observability.
Glomar Data
Own reliability for the Kafka + Flink data platform; reduce on-call pages.
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Open the full job feedCompensation for a site reliability engineer varies widely by location, industry, employer size, and experience level. Below is the national salary band based on Google SRE Books — canonical reference on the discipline, cross-referenced with live posting data on Workzil. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2026 estimates.
| Career stage | Typical experience | Annual salary (US) |
|---|---|---|
| Entry-level | 0-2 years | from $95,000 |
| Mid-level | 3-5 years | median $158,000 |
| Senior | 6-10 years | median $218,000 |
| Expert / Staff+ | 10+ years | up to $340,000 |
Workzil's salary calculator can refine this band by US state and experience. For a deeper, state-by-state breakdown of site reliability engineer pay, see site reliability engineer salary by state (coming soon), or jump straight to the Workzil salary calculator.
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These employers consistently post site reliability engineer roles. Workzil indexes their careers pages alongside the major job boards, so postings show up in your feed the day they go live. Click an employer to see their open site reliability engineers roles tracked on Workzil.
Site Reliability Engineer demand concentrates in a handful of metros. The cities below have the deepest pipeline of openings on Workzil right now. Each link points to the local job feed (per-city pages roll out progressively — see related searches at the bottom for fallback options).
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