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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

prosper.com, San Francisco, CA, United States


Your role in our mission
You will be a senior technical contributor on the SRE team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and security of Prosper’s Cloud Platform portfolio. This role blends platform engineering and SRE duties: you will maintain the applications that run on our platform, drive alignment to platform standards, and ensure services remain current. You will design and govern an AI‑first operations model, sharing ownership of application‑layer reliability, CI/CD pipelines, and observability while building the skills, rules, and guardrails that allow AI agents to operate safely alongside human engineers.

How you’ll make an impact

Design and author AI agent skills—structured playbooks that encode investigation, deployment, and optimization workflows

Own application‑layer reliability within Kubernetes‑based compute across all environments

Maintain and upgrade platform applications—drive framework upgrades, dependency updates, and alignment to platform standards

Drive infrastructure‑as‑code with modular, multi‑environment patterns

Participate in on‑call rotation and lead incident response

Build and maintain observability across cloud monitoring and APM platforms

Own the Internal Developer Platform—CI/CD pipelines, deployment tooling, and developer self‑service

Mentor junior SRE engineers and shape team standards

Skills that will help you thrive

7+ years in SRE, DevOps, or Platform Engineering

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, or equivalent work experience

Deep expertise with a major cloud provider (GCP preferred) and Kubernetes

Strong infrastructure‑as‑code experience with multi‑environment patterns

Production CI/CD pipeline design

Observability and APM platform experience

Strong written communication—your documentation will be consumed by humans and AI agents alike

Extra credit

Experience building or integrating AI agents into operational workflows

Hands‑on with LLM‑powered development tooling

Background in designing guardrails or policy engines for automated systems

Track record of building internal developer platforms or self‑service infrastructure

Benefits

Hybrid work environment: 2 days per week in our San Francisco office with the flexibility of remote work

Competitive salary $163,000 – $203,000 annually plus bonus and generous benefits

Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k) with 5% company match, paid parental leave, flexible time off, and annual wellness allowance

Premium perks—Udemy access, childcare assistance, pet insurance, and additional savings through Beneplace

$163,000 – $203,000 a year

Equal Opportunity Employer
Prosper is committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All aspects of employment—including hiring, promotion, discipline, and discharge—are based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs, in compliance with federal, state, and local laws. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other protected status. Qualified applicants who are non‑US citizens may be considered for employment and green card sponsorship.

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