SRE Jobs in United States
There are 1,385 open SRE jobs in United States on freehire right now. 316 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 | $161,019 | $187,000 | $208,777 | 322 |
From postings that disclose pay. Currencies are counted separately, never converted.
Most requested skills
- cloud 67%
- automation 63%
- observability 55%
- python 52%
- kubernetes 51%
- aws 45%
- ci-cd 43%
- ai 42%
How the work is done
- Remote 266 · 19%
- Hybrid 219 · 16%
- Onsite 73 · 5%
Visa sponsorship offered in 42% of the 316 postings that state a position on it.
Seniority
- Senior 466
- Staff 109
- Lead 96
- Principal 51
- C-level 23
- Junior 10
Who is hiring
- 1000+ employees 378
- 501-1000 employees 129
- 51-200 employees 33
- 11-50 employees 25
- 201-500 employees 5
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Lead infrastructure transformation at a high-scale digital identity provider, moving from monoliths to microservices while ensuring reliability and guiding engineering teams toward best practices.
Software Engineer, Site Reliability
SRE building observability, reliability tooling, and operational automation for Upstart's AI lending platform, using Python/Go/JS/TS, cloud infrastructure, and AI-assisted development tools.
Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra
Build and operate the production infrastructure that powers Claude’s safety systems, ensuring safeguards are correctly configured and deployed for every model launch across multiple cloud platforms.
Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Staff SRE leading reliability and infrastructure architecture for Legora's AI-native legal workspace platform, defining SLI/SLO frameworks, incident management, and operational excellence across distributed systems—NYC-based, 5 days in-office.
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Senior Site Reliability Engineer in New York City responsible for building, operating, and improving critical platform services with full ownership, focusing on observability, reliability, and automation for a legal AI platform.

Senior Site Reliability Engineer
A Senior SRE ensures Alpaca’s global brokerage platform’s reliability, observability, and operability by managing cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, GitOps), PostgreSQL performance, and incident response while mentoring engineers.
Sr. Site Reliability Engineer, tvScientific
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at tvScientific (Pinterest) to operate and scale a cloud-native CTV advertising platform on AWS, Kubernetes, and GitOps, ensuring reliability, automation, and observability.
Site Reliability Engineer II, tvScientific
Maintains and scales a cloud-native ad-tech platform on AWS and Kubernetes, automating deployments via GitOps and improving reliability and observability.
Principal Application Support Engineer / SRE Lead (2nd Shift)
Leads SRE and application support for mission-critical fintech platforms, ensuring reliability, automation, and incident response for global trade processing systems using Java, Kafka, AWS, and distributed systems.