Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer

This is a hybrid role. Office attendance is required at least twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays for collaboration and connection. There may be additional in-office days for team or company events.

We are seeking a strategic, high-output Staff/Senior Staff SRE to define the future of our cloud platform and champion engineering excellence across Ironclad. In this role, you will pair deep cloud-native mastery with a passion for mentoring, driving architectural resilience, and solving complex distributed systems at scale.

- Provide technical leadership and strategic direction for the Site Reliability Engineering team and our broader Cloud Platform

- Define and champion SRE best practices, setting the standard for engineering excellence across the entire organization

- Solve the whole problem. Architecture for resiliency, identify risks, and make it happen.

- A proven track record of designing and driving an 'automate-everything' culture (build, test, deploy, monitor)

- Preference for collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders

- Thorough understanding of backup/recovery systems, cloud storage architecture, and distributed systems

- Be on an on-call rotation to respond to incidents that impact Ironclad’s availability, and provide support with internal or customer-facing incidents

- Translate the near, mid, and long-term strategic needs of the business into a scalable, resilient platform roadmap

- Drive critical architectural decisions with a relentless focus on security, scalability, and high performance

- Be a mentor, multiply our team’s output with leadership and guidance

- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (or similar provider)

- Modern GitOps - Experience with tools like Terraform/Pulumi, CircleCI, ArgoCD

- Experience with modern AI enabled tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Zed

- Troubleshooting and analytical skills, can PR review human and AI generated code

- Strong technical aptitude and exceptional communication skills (written and verbal)

- Desire for helping customers, and the ability to dive deep and learn a new product.