SRE Engineer
Location: San Diego, California
Country: United States
Category: Infrastructure & Helpdesk
Workplace Location: Remote
Employment Type: Contract To Hire
Posted Date: March 24, 2026
Job ID: 645401
Job Description
Job Title: SRE Engineer
Location: Remote
Contract length: 6 months
Schedule: Fulltime, M-F 8a to 5p Eastern
Pay: $45 to $50/hr, DOE
Job Overview:
We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Global SRE team. In this role, you’ll blend software engineering and systems engineering to help ensure our large-scale, distributed digital products are reliable, scalable, and efficient. You’ll work closely with software, platform, and product teams to design, build, and operate systems that support our customers worldwide.
Job Responsibilities:
- Ensure the reliability, availability, and resiliency of our digital products by designing and operating fault-tolerant systems
- Partner with product and platform teams to define and improve service health using operational and customer-experience metrics
- Design, implement, and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing solutions that provide real-time visibility into system behavior and customer experience
- Analyze system performance, scalability, and capacity, and drive optimizations to improve efficiency and stability in cloud environments
- Build automation and tooling to support deployments, scaling, incident response, and operational workflows
- Participate in an on-call rotation as part of a globally distributed team, lead incident response efforts, troubleshoot production issues, conduct postmortems, and drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Collaborate with security and compliance partners to support secure, privacy-aware, and compliant operations
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve developer experience, operational maturity, and overall customer experience
Job Qualifications:
- Experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
- Experience operating Kubernetes-based production systems
- Hands-on experience with AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools
- Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments
- Proficiency in Python for automation, tooling, or backend services
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and networking concepts
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog and CloudWatch
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About The Planet Group
The Planet Group is a global professional services firm delivering strategic staffing and advisory solutions. We operate at the intersection of talent and transformation – connecting the right people with the right opportunities in the areas of technology, engineering, accounting & finance, digital marketing, and manufacturing.
As one of the largest staffing companies in the US, we operate with a global reach and a performance-first mindset. We partner with clients to move fast, stay agile, and drive measurable results – building high-impact teams that fuel transformation and growth.
