AIOPs Observability/SRE Lead - San Jose, California, United States
$187,000 - $270,700 USD yearly
Originally posted 30 September 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves leading the Site Reliability Engineering function by building and managing a team of reliability engineers who drive platform stability, observability, automation, and operational excellence across critical IT and engineering systems. You will define and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance monitoring architectures that support current and future business requirements.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow the SRE team including hiring, mentoring, and developing reliability engineering capabilities.
- Define SRE practice including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability targets across critical platforms.
- Drive automation initiatives to eliminate toil and improve platform reliability and scalability.
- Oversee incident management, blameless post-mortems, and systematic reliability improvement programs.
- Establish observability standards including unified monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing strategies.
- Manage on-call processes, escalation procedures, and team wellbeing for 24x7 operations.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, with 10+ years of professional experience in enterprise networking.
- 10+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or DevOps with a focus on platform reliability.
- Proven experience leading technical engineering teams in a senior or management capacity.
- Deep understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and reliability frameworks.
- Strong background in observability, incident management, and blameless post-mortem culture.
- Knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and containerized environments.
Nice to have
- Experience establishing SRE practices in semiconductor, HPC, or EDA-dependent environments.
- Familiarity with AIOps platforms and AI-assisted incident management tooling.
- Knowledge of chaos engineering practices and resiliency testing frameworks.
Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, platform stability, observability, automation, cloud platforms, incident management
This role has been open 9 days — well below the 52-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
931
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Median days open
52 d
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Median salary
$227k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Altera | All employers we track in this specialty (931 roles · 86 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 7 | 931 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 24 | 6078 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 9 d | 52 d (−43 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $227k |
Skills observed across this category: Site Reliability Engineering, platform stability, observability, automation, cloud platforms, incident management
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 260 open roles · median 47 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 52 open roles · median 29 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 85 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 75 d
- Intel Corporation · 36 open roles · median 18 d
How we counted: 931 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 86 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.