Site Reliability Engineer (San Francisco) Job at Primer, San Francisco, CA

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  • Primer
  • San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Primer helps B2B products break out of the B2C-centric marketing box. Our platform turns consumer ad channels, data streams, and emerging AI workflows into measurable growth engines for go-to-market teams. We ingest billions of rows from first- and third-party sources, map them to rich company context, and surface hyper-targeted audiences and real-time performance alertsall without vendor lock-in.

That only works if the lights stay on , queries stay fast , and incidents stay rare . Thats where you come in.

As our first dedicated Site Reliability Engineer , youll be the force multiplier who designs, builds, and operates the infrastructure that powers everything: petabyte-scale data pipelines, LLM-backed services, and the APIs our customers (and engineers!) rely on every day. Youll pair hard-won ops experience with a mentors mindsetlevelling up the whole team while keeping us four steps ahead of failure.

YOUR MISSION

Own reliability from design to customer.

  • Define and uphold SLOs / SLIs, manage error budgets, and lead blameless post-mortems.
  • Automate toil out of existenceCI/CD, infra-as-code, capacity planning, and chaos testing.
  • Drive incident response end-to-end: detection, mitigation, root-cause analysis, and long-term fixes.
  • Scale multi-cloud data pipelines (Prefect, ClickHouse, Iceberg) and GPU/LLM workloads.
  • Teach best practices, review designs, and coach engineers so reliability becomes a team sport.

WHAT YOULL DO

  • Design, implement, and tune distributed systems that handle high-throughput B2B traffic .
  • Harden our AWS stack with IaC (e.g. Terraform)
  • Instrument everythinglogs, traces, metrics, and AI-powered anomaly detection.
  • Champion security, cost optimization, and disaster-recovery strategies.
  • Jump into the weeds when something breaks, fix it fast, then automate it away.

WHAT YOULL BRING

Must-Haves

  • 5+ years owning production systems at meaningful scale (sub-second latency, four-nines targets).
  • Mastery of SRE fundamentals: SLO/SLI design, error budgets, incident playbooks.
  • Deep hands-on with Linux, networking, containers/K8s, and at least one major cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure).
  • Proven track record automating infra with Terraform, Helm, or similar IaC tooling.
  • Fluency in at least one systems / scripting language (Go, Python, Rust, etc.).
  • Experience operating complex data pipelines (Prefect, Airflow, Temporal) or real-time streaming systems.
  • History of mentoring engineers and embedding reliability culture across teams.
  • Pragmatic decision-makerbalances uptime, velocity, and cost for startup reality.
  • Curiosity for AI-augmented ops (LLM chat-ops, anomaly detection, self-healing).

Nice-to-Haves

  • Managed GPU clusters and ML inference workloads.
  • Operated data lakes / lakehouses at scale (Iceberg, Delta, etc.).
  • Meaningful open-source contributions in SRE, DevOps, or data-infra projects.

WHY PRIMER

  • Mission with impact Were unlocking new growth channels for thousands of B2B marketers.
  • High-trust, low-ego culture Fully distributed team, meeting-light weeks, Friday focus days.
  • Work & life, balanced Five weeks PTO, generous parental leave, and flexibility for families.
  • Career rocket-fuel Small team, huge problems, real ownership. Shape the future with bold innovators, driving impact that redefines industries.
  • Diverse & global Teammates span six countriesand counting.
  • Intro Call with Engineering Manager 30 min
  • System Design 60 min
  • Operational Excellence Drill-down 60 min
  • Strategic Pragmatism Chat with CTO 45 min
  • Technical Coding/Systems Deep Dive 30 min
  • Culture & Values with CEO 45 min

Decision typically within 24-48 hrs of final conversation.

READY TO LEVEL UP B2B MARKETING INFRASTRUCTURE?

Email careers@sayprimer.com with your rsum, LinkedIn, GitHub, or anything that showcases your reliability superpowers. Lets build the futurewithout the fire-drills.

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Job Tags

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