Sre Engineer Jobs in Virginia
Sre Engineer jobs in Virginia are highly active, concentrated in federal contracting, cloud infrastructure, defense technology, and financial services sectors, with openings available from entry-level site reliability engineers through senior and staff-level positions. Northern Virginia, particularly the Tysons Corner and Arlington corridors, leads hiring volume, followed by Richmond and Reston, where large employers including Booz Allen Hamilton, Leidos, and Capital One have established engineering operations. The most in-demand specialties in Virginia's market center on Kubernetes orchestration, distributed systems reliability, and cloud-native infrastructure on AWS and Azure. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Top employerComcast
Top cityReston, VA
Cities hiring13
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Top industryTechnology
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Medallia
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, GovCloud
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
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Arlington, Virginia
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Site Reliability Engineer II, GovCloud
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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Medallia·McLean, Virginia
Job functions:
$129k - $190k/yr
1,001-5,000 employees
Job Description
Overview:
We believe that every experience is a memory that can last a lifetime. Experiences shape the way people feel about a company. And they greatly influence how likely people are to advocate, contribute, and stay. At Medallia, we are committed to creating a world where organizations are loved by their customers and their employees.
We empower exceptional people to create extraordinary experiences together.
Bring your whole self.
The Role and Team
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, operating, and evolving the platforms and services that power Medallia's global production environment. You will work across engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational maturity while driving automation and platform improvements at scale.
This role is expected to provide technical leadership, influence engineering best practices, and help shape the future direction of our cloud-native infrastructure and operational strategy.
We are looking for engineers who think beyond day-to-day operations and continuously seek ways to increase engineering leverage.
Engineering Leverage
At Medallia, we believe great engineers amplify the impact of themselves and those around them.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Medallia is committed to equal pay and transparency. The annual base salary range for this position is $128,500 - $190,000. Please note that the salary range information provided is a general guideline and combines all of the distinct labor markets within the US. It is uncommon for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on a variety of factors. Medallia considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, candidate’s work location, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, external market data, as well as, market and business considerations when making compensation decisions.
Medallia also offers competitive health and wellness benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401(k), short-term and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays. Benefits and eligibility may vary by location and role.
At Medallia, we celebrate diversity and recognize the value it brings to our customers and employees. Medallia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, genetic information, veteran status or military service, or any other status protected by state or local law. Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at ApplicantAccessibility@medallia.com. For information regarding how Medallia collects and uses personal information, please review our Privacy Policies. Applications will be accepted for 30 days from the date this role was posted or until the role has been filled.
Medallia is the pioneer and market leader in Experience Management. Our award-winning SaaS platform, Medallia Experience Cloud, leads the market in the management of experiences, insights, and actions for candidates, customers, employees, patients, and residents alike.
We believe that every experience is a memory that can last a lifetime. Experiences shape the way people feel about a company. And they greatly influence how likely people are to advocate, contribute, and stay. At Medallia, we are committed to creating a world where organizations are loved by their customers and their employees.
We empower exceptional people to create extraordinary experiences together.
Bring your whole self.
The Role and Team
The Site Reliability Engineering organization at Medallia brings together the infrastructure and applications that power a highly reliable global SaaS platform.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, operating, and evolving the platforms and services that power Medallia's global production environment. You will work across engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational maturity while driving automation and platform improvements at scale.
This role is expected to provide technical leadership, influence engineering best practices, and help shape the future direction of our cloud-native infrastructure and operational strategy.
We are looking for engineers who think beyond day-to-day operations and continuously seek ways to increase engineering leverage.
Successful candidates will act as force multipliers by building automation, self-service capabilities, platform solutions, and AI-assisted workflows that enable teams to operate more efficiently and reliably at scale.
Please note this role participates in a rotating on-call schedule supporting production systems and services.
Engineering Leverage
At Medallia, we believe great engineers amplify the impact of themselves and those around them.
Successful Senior SREs build systems, platforms, standards, and automation that enable multiple teams to move faster, operate more reliably, and scale efficiently.
As AI capabilities continue to evolve, Senior SREs are expected to evaluate, adopt, and promote AI-assisted engineering practices that improve productivity, accelerate delivery, and reduce operational burden across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, and secure production platforms.
- Partner with software engineering teams to improve application reliability, scalability, performance, and operational readiness.
- Lead complex incident investigations, root cause analyses, and reliability improvement initiatives.
- Design and implement automation, self-service capabilities, and platform solutions that reduce operational toil.
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools and automation platforms to accelerate troubleshooting, improve productivity, and reduce operational overhead.
- Identify opportunities to streamline operational processes through automation, AI-enabled workflows, and platform engineering practices.
- Drive adoption of SRE principles, reliability standards, and operational best practices across engineering organizations.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and operational tooling.
- Support and improve CI/CD and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
- Design observability strategies using monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms.
- Participate in architecture reviews and provide guidance on scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical growth of the broader engineering organization.
- Act as a force multiplier by creating reusable solutions, self-service capabilities, and engineering standards that increase the effectiveness of multiple teams.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows and operational automation across the organization.
- Drive engineering leverage initiatives that improve the productivity, reliability, and effectiveness of multiple engineering teams.
- Influence the broader engineering organization through platform thinking, standardization, and operational simplification.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience leading reliability, platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud operations initiatives in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience operating and supporting large-scale production environments.
- Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, OCI, or GCP.
- Demonstrated Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Demonstrated experience developing automation and tooling using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform.
- Demonstrated experience designing and supporting CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
- Demonstrated understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, TLS/SSL, routing, and service networking.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting distributed systems and leading production incident response efforts.
- Demonstrated track record of reducing operational complexity through automation, platform engineering, or process transformation initiatives.
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions across teams and drive engineering improvements beyond direct ownership.
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with GitOps platforms such as ArgoCD.
- Experience operating multi-region or hybrid-cloud environments.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
- Experience designing and operating platform engineering solutions and self-service infrastructure.
- Experience supporting high-scale SaaS environments.
- Understanding of release strategies such as canary, blue/green, progressive delivery, and feature flag-based deployments.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance engineering, and resilience testing.
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and regulatory requirements in production environments.
- Experience using AI-assisted development, automation, or operational tooling to improve engineering productivity and service reliability.
- Experience applying AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity, reliability, or operational efficiency at scale.
- Experience designing platform engineering solutions that enable self-service and increase engineering leverage.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional technical initiatives.
- Demonstrated passion for automation, process improvement, operational excellence, and engineering scalability.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Medallia is committed to equal pay and transparency. The annual base salary range for this position is $128,500 - $190,000. Please note that the salary range information provided is a general guideline and combines all of the distinct labor markets within the US. It is uncommon for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on a variety of factors. Medallia considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, candidate’s work location, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, external market data, as well as, market and business considerations when making compensation decisions.
Medallia also offers competitive health and wellness benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401(k), short-term and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays. Benefits and eligibility may vary by location and role.
At Medallia, we celebrate diversity and recognize the value it brings to our customers and employees. Medallia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, genetic information, veteran status or military service, or any other status protected by state or local law. Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at ApplicantAccessibility@medallia.com. For information regarding how Medallia collects and uses personal information, please review our Privacy Policies. Applications will be accepted for 30 days from the date this role was posted or until the role has been filled.
Medallia
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
McLean, Virginia
New 7h ago1,001-5,000 employees
Job functions:
$129k - $190k/yr
Job Description
Overview:
We believe that every experience is a memory that can last a lifetime. Experiences shape the way people feel about a company. And they greatly influence how likely people are to advocate, contribute, and stay. At Medallia, we are committed to creating a world where organizations are loved by their customers and their employees.
We empower exceptional people to create extraordinary experiences together.
Bring your whole self.
The Role and Team
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, operating, and evolving the platforms and services that power Medallia's global production environment. You will work across engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational maturity while driving automation and platform improvements at scale.
This role is expected to provide technical leadership, influence engineering best practices, and help shape the future direction of our cloud-native infrastructure and operational strategy.
We are looking for engineers who think beyond day-to-day operations and continuously seek ways to increase engineering leverage.
Engineering Leverage
At Medallia, we believe great engineers amplify the impact of themselves and those around them.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
Medallia is committed to equal pay and transparency. The annual base salary range for this position is $128,500 - $190,000. Please note that the salary range information provided is a general guideline and combines all of the distinct labor markets within the US. It is uncommon for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on a variety of factors. Medallia considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, candidate’s work location, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, external market data, as well as, market and business considerations when making compensation decisions.
Medallia also offers competitive health and wellness benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401(k), short-term and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays. Benefits and eligibility may vary by location and role.
At Medallia, we celebrate diversity and recognize the value it brings to our customers and employees. Medallia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, genetic information, veteran status or military service, or any other status protected by state or local law. Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at ApplicantAccessibility@medallia.com. For information regarding how Medallia collects and uses personal information, please review our Privacy Policies. Applications will be accepted for 30 days from the date this role was posted or until the role has been filled.
Medallia is the pioneer and market leader in Experience Management. Our award-winning SaaS platform, Medallia Experience Cloud, leads the market in the management of experiences, insights, and actions for candidates, customers, employees, patients, and residents alike.
We believe that every experience is a memory that can last a lifetime. Experiences shape the way people feel about a company. And they greatly influence how likely people are to advocate, contribute, and stay. At Medallia, we are committed to creating a world where organizations are loved by their customers and their employees.
We empower exceptional people to create extraordinary experiences together.
Bring your whole self.
The Role and Team
The Site Reliability Engineering organization at Medallia brings together the infrastructure and applications that power a highly reliable global SaaS platform.
As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, operating, and evolving the platforms and services that power Medallia's global production environment. You will work across engineering teams to improve reliability, scalability, performance, and operational maturity while driving automation and platform improvements at scale.
This role is expected to provide technical leadership, influence engineering best practices, and help shape the future direction of our cloud-native infrastructure and operational strategy.
We are looking for engineers who think beyond day-to-day operations and continuously seek ways to increase engineering leverage.
Successful candidates will act as force multipliers by building automation, self-service capabilities, platform solutions, and AI-assisted workflows that enable teams to operate more efficiently and reliably at scale.
Please note this role participates in a rotating on-call schedule supporting production systems and services.
Engineering Leverage
At Medallia, we believe great engineers amplify the impact of themselves and those around them.
Successful Senior SREs build systems, platforms, standards, and automation that enable multiple teams to move faster, operate more reliably, and scale efficiently.
As AI capabilities continue to evolve, Senior SREs are expected to evaluate, adopt, and promote AI-assisted engineering practices that improve productivity, accelerate delivery, and reduce operational burden across the organization.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and operate highly available, scalable, and secure production platforms.
- Partner with software engineering teams to improve application reliability, scalability, performance, and operational readiness.
- Lead complex incident investigations, root cause analyses, and reliability improvement initiatives.
- Design and implement automation, self-service capabilities, and platform solutions that reduce operational toil.
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools and automation platforms to accelerate troubleshooting, improve productivity, and reduce operational overhead.
- Identify opportunities to streamline operational processes through automation, AI-enabled workflows, and platform engineering practices.
- Drive adoption of SRE principles, reliability standards, and operational best practices across engineering organizations.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, and operational tooling.
- Support and improve CI/CD and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
- Design observability strategies using monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting platforms.
- Participate in architecture reviews and provide guidance on scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the technical growth of the broader engineering organization.
- Act as a force multiplier by creating reusable solutions, self-service capabilities, and engineering standards that increase the effectiveness of multiple teams.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows and operational automation across the organization.
- Drive engineering leverage initiatives that improve the productivity, reliability, and effectiveness of multiple engineering teams.
- Influence the broader engineering organization through platform thinking, standardization, and operational simplification.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience leading reliability, platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud operations initiatives in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience operating and supporting large-scale production environments.
- Demonstrated experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as AWS, OCI, or GCP.
- Demonstrated Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Demonstrated experience developing automation and tooling using Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
- Demonstrated experience with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform.
- Demonstrated experience designing and supporting CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
- Demonstrated understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, load balancing, TLS/SSL, routing, and service networking.
- Demonstrated experience troubleshooting distributed systems and leading production incident response efforts.
- Demonstrated track record of reducing operational complexity through automation, platform engineering, or process transformation initiatives.
- Proven ability to influence technical decisions across teams and drive engineering improvements beyond direct ownership.
- Ability to participate in an on-call rotation supporting production systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with GitOps platforms such as ArgoCD.
- Experience operating multi-region or hybrid-cloud environments.
- Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, or similar technologies.
- Experience designing and operating platform engineering solutions and self-service infrastructure.
- Experience supporting high-scale SaaS environments.
- Understanding of release strategies such as canary, blue/green, progressive delivery, and feature flag-based deployments.
- Experience with capacity planning, performance engineering, and resilience testing.
- Familiarity with security, compliance, and regulatory requirements in production environments.
- Experience using AI-assisted development, automation, or operational tooling to improve engineering productivity and service reliability.
- Experience applying AI-assisted engineering workflows to improve productivity, reliability, or operational efficiency at scale.
- Experience designing platform engineering solutions that enable self-service and increase engineering leverage.
- Experience mentoring engineers and leading cross-functional technical initiatives.
- Demonstrated passion for automation, process improvement, operational excellence, and engineering scalability.
- Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Medallia is committed to equal pay and transparency. The annual base salary range for this position is $128,500 - $190,000. Please note that the salary range information provided is a general guideline and combines all of the distinct labor markets within the US. It is uncommon for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on a variety of factors. Medallia considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate’s work experience, candidate’s work location, education/training, key skills, internal peer equity, external market data, as well as, market and business considerations when making compensation decisions.
Medallia also offers competitive health and wellness benefits, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401(k), short-term and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, statutory leaves, paid parental leave, and paid holidays. Benefits and eligibility may vary by location and role.
At Medallia, we celebrate diversity and recognize the value it brings to our customers and employees. Medallia is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age (40 and over), disability, genetic information, veteran status or military service, or any other status protected by state or local law. Individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to apply please contact us at ApplicantAccessibility@medallia.com. For information regarding how Medallia collects and uses personal information, please review our Privacy Policies. Applications will be accepted for 30 days from the date this role was posted or until the role has been filled.
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A snapshot from current Virginia openings, updated as new roles post.
Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Retail
- Trucking
- Aerospace & Defense
- Law & Legal Services
What Virginia Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in sre engineer jobs across Virginia.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, or Bash
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in production environments
- Familiarity with observability platforms including Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana
- Active or eligible security clearance preferred for federal contracting roles in Virginia
Sre Engineer Jobs in Virginia: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a sre engineer in Virginia?
There is no state-issued license required to work as a sre engineer in Virginia. The standard path begins with a bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or software engineering, followed by hands-on experience in systems administration or software development. Many Virginia employers, particularly federal contractors in Northern Virginia, also value CompTIA Security+ or cloud certifications from AWS or Google, and a security clearance significantly broadens opportunities in the defense and intelligence sectors.
How much do sre engineers make in Virginia?
Sre engineers in Virginia earn a median of about $136,460 a year, based on May 2025 Bureau of Labor Statistics wage data, ranging from around $83,350 for the lowest 10% to over $211,930 for the top 10%. Pay rises with experience, specialty, and employer.
Which companies hire sre engineers in Virginia?
Employers hiring sre engineers in Virginia right now include Comcast, Medallia, and Umbra, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Northern Virginia's dense concentration of federal contractors and cloud infrastructure companies means consistent demand from both large government-focused firms and commercial technology organizations with regional headquarters in the state.
Which Virginia cities have the most sre engineer jobs?
Reston, Arlington, and McLean have the most sre engineer openings in Virginia. Northern Virginia dominates due to its concentration of federal agencies, defense contractors, and cloud providers anchored by the AWS us-east-1 data center corridor, while Richmond draws demand from financial services firms and state government technology modernization efforts.
Are there remote sre engineer jobs in Virginia?
Yes, and more than most technical fields. About 50% of sre engineer openings tied to Virginia are remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting the desk-based and cloud-centric nature of the work. Roles focused on monitoring, incident response, and infrastructure automation are the most frequently offered in fully remote arrangements, while positions requiring secure facility access or cleared environments are typically on-site.
How can I get hired as a sre engineer in Virginia with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is transitioning from a systems administrator, DevOps associate, or software developer role, where production infrastructure experience directly translates. Large Northern Virginia federal contractors such as Booz Allen Hamilton and Leidos run new-graduate technical programs and associate engineer tracks designed for candidates without direct sre titles. Building a portfolio that demonstrates on-call runbooks, monitoring dashboards, or Infrastructure as Code projects, alongside an AWS or Google Cloud associate certification, gives candidates a concrete edge in Virginia's competitive market.
Where can I find and apply to sre engineer jobs in Virginia?
You can find and apply to sre engineer jobs in Virginia on Migrate Mate, which lists current Virginia openings across Northern Virginia, Richmond, and other hiring centers in the state. Find roles that fit your experience and apply directly through the listings.
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