Site Reliability Engineer

Kaystaff is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer for a Top Technology Company In New York and SF. This position requires a balance of operational and software engineering skills. This role involves optimizing database accesses, handling production issues, and improving application performance. As our SRE, you will be responsible for our entire production environment and improve the development experience across both infrastructure and application reliability. Infrastructure Responsibilities Infrastructure Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain the production environment, having previously handled 500+ machine deployments. Kubernetes Mastery: Own our containerized infrastructure, leveraging deep expertise in Kubernetes and Helm to manage deployment, scaling, and operational health. CI/CD & Deployment Optimization: Optimize and streamline both the TypeScript and Python/ML deployment pipelines to support high‑velocity feature release while maintaining the highest reliability. DevX Support: Support Developer Experience (DevX) work to streamline developer workflows, enhance tool proficiency, and improve CI/CD systems. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage and maintain infrastructure definitions using Terraform. Requirements 7+ years of experience as a highly technical, application‑ leaning Site Reliability Engineer with prior high‑ growth start‑ up and software engineering experience. Experience driving systematic application improvements across complex, distributed systems with high‑availability requirements for a high‑growth start‑up Extended period working at high‑ growth start‑ ups (no recent Big Tech) Prior SWE experience and strong coding abilities (Python and TypeScript) Ability to own complex systems and solve complex problems independently Defines standards for operational excellence, e. g. , automating manual workflows Salary ‑ $200k ‑ $300k/yr.