IT Site Reliability Software Engineer
Posted 19 May 2026
Advertised as “Sr. IT Site Reliability Software Engineer”
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- Level
- GAQ127R40
- Expected experience
- 5+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
No salary listed for this role.
GAQ127R40
Team: IT Infrastructure and Operations
About the Role
At Databricks Information Technology, we are a product-led organization transforming how we work—from the ease of using our IT services to the applications we develop to scale seamlessly during rapid growth.
As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE), you will bridge the gap between software engineering and systems architecture. You will be a core contributor to the IT Infrastructure team, owning the evolution of core infrastructure and observability platforms. This role requires a strong software engineering mindset and deep technical breadth to deliver high-quality, scalable solutions for "immature" system problems. Your focus will be on building resilient, automated infrastructure that empowers development teams and ensures our cloud environment is cost-optimized, secure, and highly available.
The Impact You Will Have
- Architect and Automate: Design and deploy production-grade infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
- **Reliability and Performance Engineering:**Optimize system performance, architecture, and scaling to ensure maximum uptime and minimal latency for critical IT services.
- CI/CD Excellence: Architect robust deployment pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions), managing both hosted and self-hosted runners for specialized build requirements.
- Observable by Default: Create underlying infrastructure to ensure new internal applications are secure and have logging, metrics and alerts enabled by default.
- Agentic ToolingI: Build internal AI plugins, and automation scripts to streamline developer workflows and enhance operational efficiency.
- Incident Response: Focus on subsequent data usage, incident management workflows, and creating necessary dashboards to maintain service health. Participate in a shared on-call rotation, leading rapid incident response and technical troubleshooting for production outages.Facilitate blameless post-mortems to identify root causes and implement permanent preventive engineering solutions.
- Partner Cross-Functionally: Collaborate with Security, Engineering, and Support teams to deliver real business outcomes.
What We Look For
- Software Engineering Expertise: 5+ years of production-level experience with strong proficiency in (non-negotiable).