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Associate Site Reliability Engineer Jobs in California

Mercor

Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$130K - $500K/yr

About the Role As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Mercor, you'll own production reliability across our most critical systems, partnering directly with infrastructure leadership. You'll play a ...

Apple

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

San Diego, CA · On-site

$60.50 - $80.50/hr

We are looking for the right Site Reliability Engineer to help us take our efforts to the next level...In this role, you will help lead our cloud based infrastructure team for Apple's Video Computer ...

Air Apps

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$116K - $200K/yr

The Role As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Air Apps, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and scalability of our systems. You will work at the intersection of ...

Apple

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

San Diego, CA

$139K - $258K/yr

As a main contributor to our SRE team you will develop and maintain infrastructure, tooling, and engineering services for cloud based applications. You will be responsible for system bringup ...

Shimento, Inc.

Site Reliability Engineer

Santa Clara, CA · On-site

$66.50 - $88.25/hr

Site Reliability Engineer Candidate local to Santa Clara, CA Hybrid model it is must for the candidate to come down for the client F2F interview. As an SRE, you'''''ll also be working in conjunction ...

Amiri Recruiting

Site Reliability Engineer

Mountain View, CA · Hybrid

$67.25 - $89.25/hr

Site Reliability Engineer Onsite- Bay Area, CA Skills Relevant Skills and Experience What You'll Do (Day-to-Day) * Own and manage our cloud infrastructure (GCP or AWS, on-prem). * Build, maintain ...

Plenful

Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$67.25 - $89.25/hr

About the role We're hiring a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of Plenful's production systems as we continue to grow. This role is centered on ...

Eitacies Inc

Java SRE Engineer

Santa Clara, CA

$60/hr

Java SRE Engineer Onsite San Francisco Bay Area Infrastructure Engineer (2 Positions) We are looking for an experienced Java SRE / Platform Engineer to support large-scale cloud migrations and ...

Nastech Global

SRE Engineer

San Jose, CA · On-site

$66.75 - $88.75/hr

Job Title: SRE Engineer Location: San Jose, CA / RTP, NC(Onsite) Job Type: Full Time Must Have Technical/Functional Skills: * SRE, NetApp Storage, Linux Certified, Kubernetes Certified, DevOps, ...

WorkOS

Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site +1

$67.25 - $89.25/hr

About the Site Reliability Engineering Team The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team ensures the WorkOS platform remains fast, reliable, and resilient at scale. We build the systems and practices ...

CodeRabbit

Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$170K - $240K/yr

As an SRE at CodeRabbit, you'll be responsible for enhancing the reliability of our critical services that process millions of code reviews, building sophisticated automation platforms, and owning ...

Shimento, Inc.

SRE

Santa Clara, CA

$66.50 - $88.25/hr

We are looking for a highly skilled Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a fast-paced engineering team focused on building and scaling next-generation infrastructure platforms. This role offers ...

Arctiq, Inc.

Site Reliability Engineer

San Diego, CA · On-site

$60.50 - $80.50/hr

The Site Reliability Engineer will focus on the execution and maintenance of reliability engineering practices for mission-critical government systems. Following the SRE Implementation Plan, you will ...

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As of Jun 16, 2026, the average hourly pay for associate site reliability engineer in California is $62.91, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $54.09 and $71.88 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is the difference between Associate Site Reliability Engineer vs Software Engineer?

AspectAssociate Site Reliability EngineerSoftware Engineer
Required CredentialsBachelor's in CS or related field, some certifications (e.g., Linux, cloud)Bachelor's in CS or related field, coding certifications often preferred
Work EnvironmentOperations-focused, maintaining system reliability, monitoringDevelopment-focused, designing and coding software applications
Employer & Industry UsageTech companies, cloud providers, SaaS firmsTech companies, startups, software firms
Common Search & Comparison IntentUnderstanding roles in reliability and operationsUnderstanding software development roles

Associate Site Reliability Engineers focus on maintaining system stability, monitoring, and incident response, often working closely with operations teams. Software Engineers primarily develop, test, and deploy software applications. While both roles require strong technical skills and a background in computer science, their core responsibilities differ—one emphasizes reliability and system health, the other software creation.

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Site Reliability Engineer

Mercor

San Francisco, CA • On-site

$130K - $500K/yr

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision

Posted 20 days ago

Job description

About Mercor
Mercor's mission is to organize human intelligence to power the AI economy. We partner with leading AI labs and enterprises to provide the human intelligence essential to AI development. Our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers teach students: by sharing knowledge, experience, and context that can't be captured in code alone. Today, more than 30,000 experts in our network collectively earn over $3 million a day.
Mercor is creating a new category of work where expertise powers AI advancement. Achieving this requires an ambitious, fast-paced and deeply committed team. You'll work alongside researchers, operators, and AI companies at the forefront of shaping the systems that are redefining society. Mercor is a profitable Series C company valued at $10 billion. We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.
About the Role
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Mercor, you'll own production reliability across our most critical systems, partnering directly with infrastructure leadership. You'll play a foundational role in building our SRE function from the ground up and shaping how Mercor operates large-scale, high-availability systems.
What You'll Do
Own reliability and production safety for core shared services and customer-facing systems.
Partner directly with infrastructure leadership to define SRE priorities, reliability standards, and production safety roadmap.
Repair and improve how our production systems are structured so they are stable, resource-efficient, isolated, and well-observed.
Introduce and champion modern SRE practices (e.g., incident response, postmortems, SLIs/SLOs) across engineering teams.
Collaborate with leverage engineering and applied AI teams to ensure sustainable growth.
Represent SRE best practices internally and help teams onboard onto production in a way that is safe, scalable, and consistent with SRE principles.
What We're Looking For
Experience doing true SRE work (not just operations) across multiple roles or companies.
Deep familiarity with SRE practices as popularized by Google (e.g., error budgets, reliability vs. risk trade-offs, large-scale distributed systems).
5+ years of SRE experience; 15+ years of overall experience is ideal for this first SRE hire.
Proven success operating systems at scale, with a strong understanding of the challenges of large, distributed production environments.
Strong collaboration skills; able to work efficiently with cross-functional engineering teams.
Ability to drive cultural change around reliability while remaining hands-on in building and fixing systems.
Comfort working in high-intensity, high-availability environments where uptime and production quality are critical.
Nice to Haves
Experience as a founding SRE or early SRE hire, standing up SRE practices and orgs from scratch.
Hands-on experience in the AWS ecosystem, Kubernetes, and modern IaC tooling (Terraform, Spacelift, etc.).
Benefits
  • Bi-annual performance bonus structure
  • Generous equity grant vested over 4 years
  • Up to $15k Relocation bonus
  • $10K housing bonus (if you live within 0.5 miles of our office)
  • $1.5K monthly stipend for meals
  • Free Equinox membership
  • $200 monthly laundry reimbursement
  • $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement
  • Health, Dental, Vision insurance

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