[Hiring] Staff Site Reliability Engineer @Sprout Social

Role Description

Sprout Social is looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to join our Tooling team and help shape how engineers build, test, deploy, and operate software across the company.

Great developer experience has company-wide impact. Tooling team builds the platforms, automation, and workflows that help Sprout’s engineers ship better software faster. Our scope spans CI/CD and continuous delivery, AI-assisted development and engineering agents, internal developer tools, and observability. As a Staff engineer, you’ll set technical direction and stay close to the code, turning complex problems into reliable tools that teams want to use. You’ll partner with engineers across Sprout to understand what slows them down, improve their daily workflows, and measure the difference your work makes.

What you’ll do

• Define technical direction for developer tooling alongside the Tooling Engineering Manager and engineering partners.
• Design, build, and evolve our CI/CD and continuous delivery platforms.
• Build AI-first engineering workflows, including AI-assisted coding and agents that support development, testing, and operational tasks.
• Partner with Product Engineering, Infrastructure, and Security to create secure-by-default, self-service workflows.
• Lead technical initiatives across teams, building alignment on design decisions and tradeoffs.
• Multiply the impact of other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, mentorship, and reusable engineering patterns.
• Improve engineering observability and developer integrations so teams can understand and troubleshoot their systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience developing and operating production software, with strong programming skills in a language such as Python, Go, Java, or Ruby.
• Experience designing, building, and improving CI/CD systems and software delivery workflows.
• Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools and evaluating their output through code review, testing, and validation.
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives across multiple teams.
• Experience building reliable internal platforms or developer tools.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and infrastructure automation using tools such as Terraform.
• Experience building or integrating engineering agents or shared AI development platforms.
• Experience with observability platforms and integrations such as Datadog, Sentry, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
• Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins modernization, deployment orchestration, source control automation, package management, or artifact repositories.
• Experience using software delivery metrics, such as DORA metrics, alongside developer feedback.

Benefits

• Stock Ownership (RSUs): Eligibility for Restricted Stock Units (RSUs).
• Generous Paid Time Off: 26 paid days off annually, in addition to bank holidays and extra company-wide "Rest & Recharge" days.
• Paid Parental Leave: 20 weeks of paid leave for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA): An annual $600 USD fund to support personal well-being.
• Home Office Support: A one-time $550 USD home office setup stipend and a monthly internet reimbursement.
• Mental Health & Well-being: Access to dedicated mental health resources and company-wide wellness programs.
• International Travel: Opportunities to travel to our Chicago HQ for team meetups and collaboration.
• Kraków Office Perks: A daily 50 zł lunch stipend when you choose to work from our office.

Salary Information

Our current hiring range for this role: 28,800 PLN – 36,000 PLN monthly. Offers are made within this range, with opportunities to grow within the broader band based on performance and impact.

The full base pay range for this role is 28,800 PLN – 43,300 PLN monthly. These ranges were determined by a market-based compensation approach.