Site Reliability Engineer job title trend since Apr 2011
Engineering · Fading · in 2.7% of HN hiring posts · 117 open roles at 38 companies · median $220k · first seen Apr 2011
Who is hiring for it
Open postings on their own job boards, read 22h ago12 of 38 companies (top 12 shown)
Open roles
8 of 117; company pages list the rest| Role | |||
|---|---|---|---|
Principal Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Engineering: Dedicated GitLabRemote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United States$223k to $380k | GitLab | Remote, Canada; Remote, United Kingdom; Remote, United States | $223k to $380k |
Senior Site Reliability Engineer - (US-Remote) ClickHouseUnited States$150k to $230k | ClickHouse | United States | $150k to $230k |
Senior Site Reliability Engineer ReplitRemote - US$210k to $275k | Replit | Remote - US | $210k to $275k |
Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer FivetranOakland, California, United States, AMER$232k to $290k | Fivetran | Oakland, California, United States, AMER | $232k to $290k |
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Compute RobloxSan Mateo, CA, United States$197k to $243k | Roblox | San Mateo, CA, United States | $197k to $243k |
Senior Software Engineer - SRE MercurySan Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States$201k to $251k | Mercury | San Francisco, CA, New York, NY, Portland, OR, or Remote within Canada or United States | $201k to $251k |
Staff+ Site Reliability Engineer, Safeguards ML Infra AnthropicSan Francisco, CA$320k to $485k | Anthropic | San Francisco, CA | $320k to $485k |
Senior Site Reliability Engineer DuolingoPittsburgh, PA$183k to $247k | Duolingo | Pittsburgh, PA | $183k to $247k |
Share of Hacker News hiring posts
3,644 posts since Apr 2011 · -20% in 6 monthsSeptember 2026 6 of 256 postings, 2.3%
Related titles
About this title
Keeps production up with software: on-call, SLOs and automation; Google's term.
Also counted: SRE, site reliability
First sighting
Columbia, MD - OmniTI Site Reliability Engineer (Systems Administrator), Database Administrator, Web Engineer...
Median posted salary $220k from 60 postings that state a base pay range (the median of their midpoints, USD a year). Not a survey of what people earn.
Sources: Hacker News Who is hiring threads and about 130 public job boards, read weekly. A title's share is not the job market's size. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.