Nectar Social
Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure
Palo Alto, CA, Remote. Posted 3 months ago
The role
You will own the reliability and scalability of production systems handling social data and real-time AI workloads. You will define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets while improving cloud infrastructure performance and cost efficiency.
What you will do
- Own the reliability and scalability of production systems
- Define and drive SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
- Build observability, alerting, and on-call practices
- Lead incident response and blameless postmortems
- Improve performance, cost efficiency, and capacity planning across cloud infrastructure
- Harden infrastructure-as-code, deployment, and CI/CD pipelines
- Partner with engineering teams to embed reliability into system design
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of experience operating production systems as an SRE, infrastructure, or platform engineer
- Experience scaling databases, data infrastructure, or complex production platforms under significant load
- Hands-on expertise with cloud infrastructure (AWS or similar) and infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Solid programming skills for building automation, tooling, and operational services
- Comfortable operating in fast-moving startup environments with high ownership and autonomy
- A reliability-first mindset balanced with pragmatism about velocity and cost
Nice to have
- Experience standing up or maturing an SRE practice at an early-stage or rapidly scaling company
- Familiarity with our tech stack: AWS, Pulumi, Postgres, ClickHouse, Turbopuffer, or Temporal
- Background in capacity planning, performance engineering, or cost optimization at scale
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and early equity
- Health, vision, and dental benefits
- 401(k) match
- ClassPass membership for fitness and wellness classes
- $1,000/month housing stipend for living near the office
- $50/month mobile stipend
- Commuter benefits (train stipend or Palo Alto parking reimbursement)
- Free lunch in the office
- Clear career growth opportunities
About the company
Nectar is building an AI-native social operating system for a new era of commerce. Founded by ex-Meta product and engineering leaders, the company has raised over $30M in total capital.