# Site Reliability Engineer at Instrumental

- Company: Instrumental
- What the company does: Backed by First Round Capital.
- Company website: https://instrumental.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $140K to $165K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/instrumental-inc-/am9icG9zdDqBDVGdtctV2nJMJEvxO0zQ
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/instrumental-site-reliability-engineer/

## About the role

As a Site Reliability Engineer , you’ll operate, improve, and scale our AWS-based SaaS platform. You’ll combine hands-on production operations with engineering, focusing on reliability, automation, observability, and operational excellence. You’ll participate in a bi-weekly on-call rotation, but the goal isn’t simply to keep systems running—it’s to continuously engineer away the operational complexity that comes with scaling our platform and customer base.

## What they're looking for

- 3–4 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Platform Engineering, or Systems Engineering supporting production SaaS environments
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including EC2, VPC, IAM, RDS, ECS, and S3
- Experience managing infrastructure using Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code technologies
- Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms
- Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools, preferably Datadog, including dashboards, alerting, logging, and APM
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes