Site Reliability & Security Engineer

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Location San Francisco HQ Employment Type Full time Location Type On-site Department R&D Compensation IC5 Estimated salary commensurate with experience. $218K • Offers Equity IC6 Estimated salary commensurate with experience. $240K • Offers Equity Tier Guide Our Compensation Philosophy: Market-based: Our formula ensures new hires earn at or above current 75th percentile cash compensation benchmarks.
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About Alembic Alembic is pioneering a revolution in marketing, proving the true ROI of marketing activities. The Alembic Marketing Intelligence Platform applies sophisticated algorithms and AI models to finally solve this long-standing problem. When you join the Alembic team, you’ll help build the tools that provide unprecedented visibility into how marketing drives revenue, helping a growing list of Fortune 500 companies make more confident, data-driven decisions. About the Role We’re looking for a Site Reliability & Security Engineer to help Alembic scale a reliable and secure platform at the intersection of AI, analytics, and enterprise SaaS. You’ll be a foundational member of the infrastructure team—owning systems reliability, observability, and cloud security as we grow our data-intensive platform. In this dual role, you’ll both operate high-performance infrastructure and implement security controls that meet the standards of our most demanding enterprise customers. Key Responsibilities Design, automate, and maintain infrastructure for real-time analytics and machine learning workloads
Implement cloud security best practices (IAM, encryption, VPC architecture, secrets management) across AWS
Drive initiatives for compliance readiness (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.) and internal security audits
Drive observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response workflows across the platform
Partner with engineering and data teams to ensure systems are resilient, performant, and secure by default
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with integrated security checks and deployment safeguards
Lead infrastructure threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, and security incident response
Educate and empower developers to follow secure coding and deployment practices
Must-Have Qualifications 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure roles with security responsibilities
Strong experience with AWS services and cloud-native security (IAM, KMS, CloudTrail, Security Hub, etc.)
Proficient in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and Ansible) and CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Argo, etc.)
Experience with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS)
Familiarity with security frameworks and controls for SaaS environments (SOC 2, NIST, CIS Benchmarks)
Strong scripting or programming skills (Python, Bash, etc.)
Experience with compliance audits or enterprise security reviews
Excellent troubleshooting, documentation, and cross-functional communication skills
Nice-to-Have Experience managing security in data pipelines and ML platforms (e.g., Airflow, Spark, Kafka)
Familiarity with security automation tooling (e.g., Trivy, Snyk, Falco, or Open Policy Agent)
Knowledge of zero-trust networking, secrets rotation, and runtime security for containers
What You’ll Get A unique opportunity to shape the security and reliability of a data-driven, enterprise-scale SaaS product
Visibility into every layer of a rapidly growing infrastructure
The chance to work alongside high-caliber engineers, scientists, and product leaders
A culture of ownership, curiosity, and execution
Why Join Alembic? High-impact role: Shape the future of our data platform at an early-stage startup.
Growth opportunities: Work in a fast-paced environment with opportunities to take on new challenges.
Collaborative culture: Join a team of passionate, skilled engineers and technologists.
Competitive compensation: Including salary, equity, and benefits.
Compensation Range: $218K - $240K
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Location:
San Francisco, CA, United States
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT & Technology