At Sierra, were creating a platform to help businesses build better, more human customer experiences with AI. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices in Atlanta, New York, London, and Singapore.
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 Family. 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 Googles AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace.
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 Sierras AI-driven infrastructure. Youll partner closely with our core engineering and product teams to ensure our systems are highly available, efficient, and built for growth.
Own Sierras observability stackmonitoring, alerting, logging, and tracingto 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 onenot as an afterthought.
Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure cloud infrastructure (AWS) using Terraform and modern DevOps tooling.
Improve the reliability and scalability of our LLM deployments, ensuring robust, performant, and cost-effective operation.
Lead improvements to deployment pipelines, CI/CD tooling, and incident management processes to reduce downtime and response time.
Define the foundation of SRE practices at Sierra, influencing culture, tooling, and best practices across the engineering org.
5+ years of handson experience in Site Reliability or Infrastructure engineering roles for complex SaaS or cloudbased systems.
Experience designing for availability, scalability, and reliability at both infrastructure and application layers.
Deep experience with Terraform, AWS services, container orchestration, and cloud networking (including IAM and VPC architecture).
Strong background in observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar).
Experience working with enterprise customers and familiarity with their compliance and networking needs along with integration patterns.
Comfortable working in fastmoving environments and collaborating across product, ML, and core engineering teams.
Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
Experience with LLM infrastructureoptimizing inference performance, managing finetuned models, or largescale model deployment.
Past experience in an earlystage startup environment, especially defining SRE culture and tooling from scratch.
Familiarity with incident management automation or selfhealing infrastructure patterns.
Trust: We build trust with our customers with our accountability, empathy, quality, and responsiveness. We build trust in AI by making it more accessible, safe, and useful. We build trust with each other by showing up for each other professionally and personally, creating an environment that enables all of us to do our best work.
Customer Obsession: We deeply understand our customers business goals and relentlessly focus on driving outcomes, not just technical milestones. Everyone at the company knows and spends time with our customers. When our customer is having an issue, we drop everything and fix it.
Craftsmanship: We get the details right, from the words on the page to the system architecture. We have good taste. When we notice something isnt right, we take the time to fix it. We are proud of the products we produce. We continuously selfreflect to continuously selfimprove.
Intensity: We know we dont have the luxury of patience. We play to win. We care about our product being the best, and when it isnt, we fix it. When we fail, we talk about it openly and without blame so we succeed the next time.
Family: We know that balance and intensity are compatible, and we model it in our actions and processes. We are the best technology company for parents. We support and respect each other and celebrate each others personal and professional achievements.
We want our benefits to reflect our values and offer the following to fulltime employees:
Flexible (Unlimited) Paid Time Off
Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits for you and your family
Life Insurance and Disability Benefits
Retirement Plan (e.g., 401K, pension) with Sierra match
Parental Leave
Fertility and family building benefits through Carrot
Lunch, as well as delicious snacks and coffee to keep you energized
Discretionary Benefit Stipend giving people the ability to spend where it matters most
Free alphorn lessons
These benefits are further detailed in Sierra's policies and are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefits plans. Eligible fulltime employees can participate in Sierra's equity plans subject to the terms of the applicable plans and policies.
We're working to bring the transformative power of AI to every organization in the world. To do so, it is important to us that the diversity of our employees represents the diversity of our customers. We believe that our work and culture are better when we encourage, support, and respect different skills and experiences represented within our team. We encourage you to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. We strive to evaluate all applicants consistently without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
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