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Russell, Tobin & Associates

Pittsburgh, PA, USA$175.1k – $208.5k/yrPosted June 26, 2026via Dice
Our client, a Big Tech firm, is looking to hire a Site Reliability Engineer (II) in Pittsburg, PA.
Pay Rate Range: $90-$95/hr. on W2, depending on experience
MUST HAVE:
Experience with ML Serving
Responsibilities: 
  • As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE-SWE), you deliver medium sized projects from start to finish with minimal supervision. You work within one or more teams to share knowledge related to building solutions and tools to configure, maintain, and scale systems and services. You produce initial project designs for your team and/or make significant contributions to larger designs and work to execute on those designs along with other SREs. You are able to recognize issues in a large service area, plan and execute the solution, and address commonly escalated issues or triage when required.
Requirements: 
  • Maintain standards of the team towards production excellence. Assist in defining improved standards for production excellence within a team.
  • Promote insights, best practices, and standards that can be applied to improve operations on the immediate team. Advocate and drive adoption of best practices and SRE converged solutions for systems design and management.
  • Set up or improve test, monitoring, or other infrastructure to ensure system scalability, reliability, and efficiency over time. Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and keep content updated over time. Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality. Identify and contribute to remediation and preventative work.
  • Write and improve code in tools, libraries, or systems with a focus on reliability, resilience, scalability, and toil reduction with minimal guidance and direction.
  • Develop interfaces between system components that may span team boundaries or RPC boundaries. Simplify code by choosing appropriate algorithms and abstractions, and by utilizing a substantial subset of standard google3 libraries in the corresponding language, as appropriate.
  • Review code developed by others and provide feedback to ensure best practices. Test non-standard scenarios to cover all cases and any potential design issues, validate resilience, and write test case descriptions to ensure coverage of critical components with minimal guidance.
  • Review technical designs within a team with an emphasis on reliability, efficiency, simplicity, and maintainability. Design solutions to problems that may have multiple approaches to support the team''s needs, or in response to reliability- and technology-related incidents. Understand constraints, identify solutions, and defend designs.

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, legal support, auto, home insurance, pet insurance and employee discounts with preferred vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity

Russell Tobin is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of the race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, reproductive health decision making, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
 
Fair Chance Employment
Russell Tobin is a Fair Chance employer. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local Fair Chance laws and ordinances, including, the California Fair Chance Act and all applicable local Fair Chance ordinances.
 
Accommodations
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of this role, please contact us. 
 
Only applicable for San Francisco Candidates: Under the San Francisco Lactation in the Workplace Ordinance, we will provide written notice of lactation accommodation rights, and this notice will automatically be given upon hiring, any inquiry of parental leave or lactation accommodation.
 
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