
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
NEW YORK, NYJobSeen 1w agoSeen in employer's feed today
Most applications go out cold — see where you stand first. No sign-up to start.
Watch jobs like this. New roles like this one near NEW YORK, NY, by email.
Don't just apply. Show up ready.
Olive works from this exact posting.
At a glance
Olive lists jobs from US employers, including remote roles you can work from the United States.
Job overview
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will support Salesforce’s Site Reliability Engineering team within its Digital Enterprise Technology Platform Engineering organization. The role focuses on architecting, scaling, and maintaining the IT monitoring and observability ecosystem, improving enterprise service reliability through telemetry and system visibility. The engineer will lead observability framework evolution, support IT projects, and provide technical mentorship.
Skills & qualifications
Skills
Qualifications
Full job description
To get the best candidate experience, please consider applying for a maximum of 3 roles within 12 months to ensure you are not duplicating efforts. Job CategorySoftware Engineering Job Details About SalesforceSalesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn't a buzzword - it's a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all. Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You're in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce. Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer About the Role:The Site Reliability Engineering team is part of the Digital Enterprise Technology Platform Engineering organization, responsible for architecting, scaling, andmaintaining the IT monitoring and observability ecosystem. You will ensure Enterprise IT services' reliability by driving proactive telemetry strategies and deep-system visibility. We're looking for a self-starter with the ability to take ownership of tasks, work under pressure, and balance multiple assignments simultaneously while maintaining a positive outlook. You'll lead the evolution of observability frameworks, contribute ideas, and provide feedback on complex monitoring architectureswhile providing expertise for IT projects and enhancements across various IT organizations. Responsibilities: * Manage, assess, plan, and support core observability platform operations and strategy. * Lead process changes and implementations related to the monitoring and logging stack (e.g., Splunk, Grafana, NewRelic). * Provide escalation support for configuration and platform issues, participating in on-call schedules to resolve major incidents using deep-dive observability data. * Collaborate with key stakeholders (Service Managers, Product Managers, Application Architects, Business Support, and Operations) to gather and develop complex monitoring and alerting requirements. * Develop AI, automation, and integrations to deliver predictive monitoring and automated anomaly detection. * Work with third-party vendors and partners to address platform-related enhancements and evaluate next-gen observability tooling. * Support and manage the introduction of new monitoring tools and orchestrate migrations to modern OpenTelemetry-based standards. * Present reports on Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and correlation metrics to the Enterprise Operations team periodically. * Work under Agile scrum methodology and provide technical mentorship on observability best practices to junior team members. * Create standard operating procedures for monitoring-as-code and share them with the team for effective execution. Minimum Qualifications: * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field, or equivalent experience in technical leadership * 7 - 10 years of experience designing and implementing distributed systems to handle large-scale telemetry and log data * 7 - 10 years of experience building and scaling high-volume observability pipelines. * Proven mastery of full-stack observability suites (Splunk, ThousandEyes, or similar). * Direct experience implementing OpenTelemetry (OTel) standards. * Strong background in "Monitoring as Code" using Terraform or similar automation tools. * Demonstrable ability in Bash/Powershell, Python, and JavaScript (NodeJS), especially program comprehension * Understanding of REST-based API design principles and best practices * Experience with server administration (Linux and Windows) * Knowledge of monitoring tools li
How this job compares
Set against the 2,390 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- New York median$151–244K/yr134 salary ranges
- US median$65–74/hr32 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 167 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs in New York and 2,390 across the US. 17% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- MongoDB16 open
- Oracle7 open
- Akamai Technologies, Inc.6 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 7 years of experience; Site Reliability Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,931 postings).
- Education
- 716 of the 2,390 open Site Reliability Engineer jobs (30%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
Similar jobs, posted recently
Open roles like this one, listed in the last 30 days.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer SplunkOkta · NEW YORK, NY (Hybrid) · $194–267K/yr
Senior/Lead Software Engineer, Site Reliability (Agentforce Operations)Salesforce · New York - New York · $149–314K/yrPosted 3w agoPosted 3w ago
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (Hybrid)Cisco · New York, NY (Hybrid) · $187–308K/yr
Senior Software Engineer II, ObservabilityCoreWeave · New York, NY · $182–242K/yrPosted 3w agoPosted 3w agoSenior Site Reliability EngineerZocdoc · New York, NY · $180–220K/yrPosted 2w agoPosted 2w ago
You've read the whole posting — now see how you match it.