SRE Jobs in United States
There are 1,381 open SRE jobs in United States on freehire right now. 317 of them were posted recently. The skills employers ask for most often are cloud, automation and observability.
Salary
| Currency | Period | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USD | year | $160,875 | $187,000 | $208,800 | 321 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- cloud 67%
- automation 63%
- observability 55%
- python 51%
- kubernetes 51%
- aws 45%
- ci-cd 43%
- ai 42%
How the work is done
- Remote 261 · 19%
- Hybrid 220 · 16%
- Onsite 72 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 42% of the 313 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 464
- Staff 108
- Lead 95
- Principal 51
- C-level 23
- Junior 10
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 376
- 501-1000 employees 130
- 51-200 employees 33
- 11-50 employees 25
- 201-500 employees 5
Site Reliability Engineer
Site Reliability Engineer managing AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) infrastructure for a healthcare platform, focusing on automation, observability, incident management, and HIPAA compliance.
Service Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Designs, tunes, and fixes multi-tiered systems to ensure high performance, stability, and availability for Apple’s global services like App Store, Apple Music, and Apple TV, using Java, Spark/Flink, AWS, Kubernetes, and bare-metal infrastructure.
Manager, Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
Lead a team of engineers to maintain service uptime, manage on-call rotations, and evaluate technical contributions. Design and deliver software that optimizes availability, scalability, and efficiency while building automation to prevent problem recurrence.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Build and maintain the infrastructure that keeps Fivetran’s data pipelines reliable, scalable, and secure using Kubernetes, cloud platforms, and automation tools.
Software Engineering Manager, Site Reliability Engineering
Lead a Site Reliability Engineering team at Google, owning end-to-end availability and performance of large-scale distributed systems while managing on-call rotations and driving automation to prevent recurring issues.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute
Senior SRE to build and scale Roblox’s private cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure, automate cluster management, and enforce reliability best practices across the Compute team.
Site Reliability Engineer II
Maintain and improve the reliability of JPMorgan Chase’s banking and payment systems using SRE practices, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise-authorized AI tools for incident response and automation.
