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Unqork · 4 hours ago

Staff Site Reliability Engineer

Unqork is a company that empowers enterprises to accelerate growth by rapidly building, testing, and running AI-native applications. The Staff Site Reliability Engineer will define and own observability architecture, manage reliability risks, and provide technical leadership across teams to improve system behavior and operational efficiency.

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Responsibilities

Report to our VP of Engineering
Observability Architecture & Strategy: Define and own end-to-end observability architecture, establishing standards for instrumentation and telemetry while leading OpenTelemetry adoption
Reliability & Operational Excellence: Use telemetry to proactively manage reliability risks, define SLIs/SLOs, and shift the organization from reactive response to proactive engineering
Technical Leadership: Serve as a Staff-level IC providing architectural guidance and mentorship across SRE, DevOps, and application teams
System Insight: Improve how the organization understands system behavior and detects/resolves incidents
Operational Impact: Directly influence platform uptime, customer experience, engineering velocity, and operational efficiency
Data-Driven Decisions: Enable better decision-making regarding performance, scalability, and reliability through data

Qualification

OpenTelemetryKubernetesCloud-native systemsGoPythonJavaOperational ExcellenceData-Driven DecisionsTechnical LeadershipStrategic Mindset

Required

8+ years in SRE or Platform engineering, with a proven track record of operating large-scale, distributed, cloud-native systems
Deep hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, and observability platforms (AWS preferred), plus proficiency in Go, Python, or Java
A systems thinker who can influence across teams without formal authority, balancing strong technical opinions with pragmatism and cost awareness
Operate across a highly distributed, multi-tenant, cloud-native environment
Define observability standards, architectures, and best practices as a Staff-level individual contributor

Benefits

Unlimited PTO (and the encouragement to use it)
Student loan payback program
100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you and your dependents
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Monthly stipend toward your WFH setup, vacation, development and more
Employer-sponsored 401(k) with contribution match
Subsidized ClassPass Membership
Generous Paid Parental Leave

Company

Unqork is a no-code enterprise application platform that helps companies build, deploy, and manage complex applications.

H1B Sponsorship

Unqork has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (2)
2024 (7)
2023 (15)
2022 (21)
2021 (32)
2020 (17)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$365.17M
Key Investors
BlackRockCapitalGGoldman Sachs Growth Equity
2020-10-06Series C· $207M
2020-02-26Series B· $51M
2019-10-03Series B· $80M

Leadership Team

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Gary Hoberman
Founder and CEO
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Joshua Shaver
Vice President of Accounting
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