Site Reliability Expert

$145–$220/hrAlphevaRemoteWorldwide

At a glance

You evaluate and correct AI recommendations on production reliability: SLO design, alert quality, deployment safety, incident command and recovery objectives. You need 7+ years in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering or cloud infrastructure, with expertise in SLOs, incident command, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code and observability.

Summary written by AI from the original listing.

  • Posted Sep 9, 2026 · 45 openings reported

About the role

Evaluate production reliability strategy, incident response, observability, capacity planning, and infrastructure automation for high-scale systems. Review AI recommendations for SLO design, alert quality, deployment safety, incident command, recovery objectives, and operational ownership. Identify reliability advice that ignores failure domains, organizational constraints, customer impact, or the cost of added complexity. Write clear corrections and runbook-quality guidance grounded in experience operating business-critical services. Remote, project-based contract work. Scope and hours depend on project matching; the listed hourly range applies to matched work.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years in SRE, platform engineering, production engineering, or cloud infrastructure
  • Expertise in SLOs, incident command, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, and observability
  • Experience owning reliability for business-critical distributed services
Applicant countries
Worldwide

The listing explicitly welcomes applicants worldwide. Role qualifications still apply.

Openings reported
45
Work arrangement
Remote
Advertised job location
Not specified
Originally posted
2026-09-09
Last checked

How this pay compares

Software engineering: typical hourly pay on each platform, November 2026.

This role $145–$220/hrTypical across platforms $65/hr

  • micro1$75/hr31 rolesMiddle half of roles: $65–$91/hr
  • Mercor$80/hr29 rolesMiddle half of roles: $65–$110/hr
  • Alignerr$63/hr132 rolesMiddle half of roles: $60–$75/hr

Based on 194 hourly-paid roles listed in November 2026. Per-task and project rates are not included. Each platform sets its own pay.

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