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Retained Recruitment for Site Reliability Engineers

Site Reliability Engineers apply software engineering principles to infrastructure operations — building the reliability, observability, and scalability of production systems. We find the professionals your team needs through dedicated retained search — not job boards.

Retained Only 21–35 Day Placement 90-Day Guarantee $140,000 – $210,000
SREReliability EngineerPlatform SREProduction Engineer

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What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Do?

Defining and managing SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets, building observability and alerting frameworks, leading incident response and post-mortems, developing automation to eliminate toil, designing capacity planning models, and collaborating with engineering teams on production readiness.

What We Screen For

Strong software engineering skills in addition to infrastructure knowledge, experience defining and managing SLOs, proficiency with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic), incident management experience, and infrastructure-as-code capability.

💡 Hiring Insight

True SREs are software engineers who chose to work on reliability — not operations engineers who learned some automation. Screen specifically for coding ability and SLO design experience, not just infrastructure tool familiarity.

Typical Compensation
$140,000 – $210,000
Staff and senior SREs with distributed systems experience and post-mortem culture leadership command the top of this range.
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Recruiting a Site Reliability Engineer — FAQ

Most Site Reliability Engineer searches through our retained model are completed within 21 to 35 business days. True SREs are software engineers who chose to work on reliability — not operations engineers who learned some automation. Screen specifically for coding ability and SLO design experience, not just infrastructure tool familiarity. We provide a realistic timeline at the start of every engagement.
Strong software engineering skills in addition to infrastructure knowledge, experience defining and managing SLOs, proficiency with observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or New Relic), incident management experience, and infrastructure-as-code capability.
The best Site Reliability Engineers are almost always employed and not browsing job boards. True SREs are software engineers who chose to work on reliability — not operations engineers who learned some automation. Screen specifically for coding ability and SLO design experience, not just infrastructure tool familiarity. A retained search means one dedicated recruiter works your role exclusively — conducting passive candidate outreach, pre-screening technically, and presenting only candidates who genuinely match your brief.
Every permanent retained placement includes a 90-day guarantee. If the placed professional departs or is released within 90 days for reasons covered under our guarantee terms, we conduct a full replacement search at no additional fee.
Compensation for Site Reliability Engineer roles typically ranges from $140,000 – $210,000. Staff and senior SREs with distributed systems experience and post-mortem culture leadership command the top of this range. We include real-time compensation benchmarking in every retained search.
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