Unify · 4 days ago
Staff Site Reliability Engineer, Tech Lead
San Francisco Office
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$250K/yr - $295K/yr
8+ years expUnify is a company focused on redefining go-to-market strategies with state-of-the-art AI. As a Staff SRE Tech Lead, you will own the reliability and scalability of the platform, leading a team of SREs and partnering with engineering leadership to ensure high performance and reliability.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Software
Responsibilities
Lead the SRE pod: Set technical direction, drive prioritization, and mentor engineers—ensuring the team is tackling the highest-leverage reliability and scalability challenges
Scale our data infrastructure: Architect and extend our ClickHouse and PostgreSQL deployments to handle terabytes of new data monthly; designing partitioning strategies, tuning queries, and building resilient replication and failover systems
Improve system performance: Profile and optimize critical paths across our backend services, identify bottlenecks in data pipelines and API layers, and ship changes that meaningfully improve latency and throughput
Build for reliability: Design and implement rate limiting, circuit breakers, graceful degradation, and other patterns that keep the platform stable under load and during partial failures
Automate everything: Drive tooling that eliminates toil—automating deployments, scaling operations, backup verification, and incident remediation
Instrument and observe: Build out distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting that give engineers clear visibility into system behavior and make debugging production issues fast
Define and enforce SLOs: Establish reliability targets aligned with customer needs, manage error budgets, and drive architectural decisions that balance shipping speed with system stability
Qualification
Required
8+ years of software engineering experience with a strong backend foundation, including 3+ years focused on reliability, infrastructure, or platform work
Experience leading teams or pods—setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, and driving execution on complex projects
Deep expertise operating databases at scale, including schema design, query optimization, replication, and failover strategies
Strong programming skills (Typescript, Python, Go, or similar) with a track record of building automation and tooling that meaningfully reduces operational burden
Collaborative, low-ego attitude with a history of leveling up the people around you
Company
Unify
The world’s first warm outbound platform - book 25% more pipeline with half the effort.
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$69.91MKey Investors
Battery Ventures
2025-07-15Series B· $40M
2024-10-08Series A· $12M
2024-06-21Seed· $11.66M
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Austin Hughes
Co-Founder, CEO
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Co-Founder, CTO
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