Site Reliability Engineer

About This Role

Meta is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to ensure its services remain fast, available, and resilient at global scale. You will work alongside software engineering teams to build observability systems, automate operational work away, and respond to incidents that affect billions of users.

Job Overview

• Job Title: Site Reliability Engineer
• Company: Meta
• Location: Menlo Park, CA / New York, NY / Seattle, WA / Austin, TX / Chicago, IL
• Job Type: Full-time
• Experience Level: Mid-level (2–5 years)
• Salary Range: $52–$70/hr
• Posted Date: 2026-06-01
• Application Deadline: 2026-07-01

Role Context

SREs at Meta are software engineers first — the role is deeply coding-oriented, not operations-heavy. You will be embedded with a product or infrastructure team and own their reliability posture: SLOs, alerting, capacity planning, and incident response. Meta's scale means that even small reliability improvements can affect hundreds of millions of user sessions per day.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and maintain SLOs, error budgets, and alerting for critical services
• Build automation to eliminate toil and improve operational consistency
• Lead or participate in incident response and post-incident reviews
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve service design for reliability
• Conduct capacity planning and work with infrastructure teams on resource allocation
• Develop internal reliability tooling, dashboards, and runbooks

Requirements & Skills

• 2+ years of SRE or production engineering experience at scale
• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or C++
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, networking, and Linux internals
• Experience defining SLOs and working with monitoring systems (Prometheus, Datadog, or similar)
• Incident management experience including postmortem facilitation
• Comfort with infrastructure automation and configuration management

Benefits & Work Conditions

• $52–$70/hr with Meta RSUs and performance bonuses
• On-call rotation with defined escalation paths and compensation
• Hybrid schedule with remote flexibility
• Full health, dental, and vision coverage
• $3,000 annual learning and wellness reimbursement

Who Should Apply

Engineers who enjoy the challenge of keeping complex systems running reliably and are motivated by the scale of impact. You are a strong coder who also understands systems deeply, communicates clearly under pressure, and thrives on building durable solutions rather than manual fixes.

About the Company

Meta operates one of the largest distributed service fleets in existence. Its production engineering culture prizes automation, blameless postmortems, and deep ownership of reliability. SREs here work on infrastructure that directly impacts billions of daily active users.

How to Apply

Apply on Meta Careers. Search "Site Reliability Engineer." The interview includes a coding round, a systems design session focused on reliability, and a behavioral interview.