Nectar Social

AI-native social operating system

SeniorSiteReliabilityEngineer

$200–400k Palo Alto, California, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Nectar Social. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-code, Programming. Own reliability and scalability of production systems. Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets”

What You'll Achieve.

Scale systems safely; Keep systems running flawlessly

Industry & Context.

AI native social operating system

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

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

Nice to Have

Experience standing up or maturing an SRE practice at an early-stage or rapidly scaling company, Familiarity with our tech stack: AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, or Temporal, Background in capacity planning, performance engineering, or cost optimization at scale

What You'll Do.

Own reliability and scalability of production systems

Define and drive SLOs

and on-call practices

Lead incident response and postmortems

and capacity planning

Harden infrastructure-as-code

Embed reliability into system design

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability; Raise the operational bar across the org

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