Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Observability
Ripple · Chicago, Illinois, United States
Posted about 2 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 66 days Ripple 's roles stay open a median of 66 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Ripple 's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Ripple
- high 112 stale, 2 reposted of 128 open
- Hiring momentum
- 185 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-08
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Ripple 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Ripple .
About this role
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer focused on Observability at Ripple, you will primarily engage in hands-on engineering work related to observability and reliability. Your responsibilities will include designing monitoring systems, implementing alert configurations, and coaching product teams on operational maturity. You will also manage incident response processes and work with cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS environments.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Ripple as an employer.
What you need
- 7+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Platform Engineering with a focus on observability and production operations
- Expert-level hands-on experience with New Relic and strong NRQL proficiency
- Deep understanding of structured logging, metrics collection, distributed tracing, and designing dashboards and alerts
- Expertise defining and implementing SLOs/SLIs and error budgets
- Hands-on experience with incident management platforms
- Strong Terraform experience for cloud infrastructure and monitoring resources
Nice to have
- Experience with alert noise reduction strategies and observability cost optimization
- Background facilitating chaos engineering or failure injection
- Knowledge of VM-hosted SQL Server monitoring
- Familiarity with FinTech compliance requirements
- Experience measuring and improving key reliability metrics
What you get
- Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days for rest and recharge
- Generous wellness reimbursement and programming
Worth weighing
- No salary listed in the posting, only a range for positions based in IL
- The incident management program is early-stage, meaning you will be establishing practices rather than inheriting a mature playbook
- The role requires a balance between hands-on engineering and coaching, which may vary in focus depending on team needs
Summarised from Ripple 's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Ripple on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-08. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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