Software Engineer, Site Reliability (SRE)
Sierra
San Francisco, CAOn-siteFullTime
About this role
About us Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor . Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. What you'll do As a Software Engineer on our Site Reliability team at Sierra, you will be responsible for defining and building the foundation of reliability, observability, and scalability across Sierra’s AI-driven infrastructure. You’ll partner closely with our core engineering and product teams to ensure our systems are highly available, efficient, and built for growth. Own Sierra’s observability stack—monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing—to give engineers clear visibility into system health and performance. Partner with product and platform engineers to design systems that are reliable and scalable from day one—not as an afterthought. Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure (AWS) using Terraform and modern DevOps t