Sarah Murphy

An experienced site reliability engineer and generalist technologist focused on model-first development and production stability practices.

Experience

Experimental Technologist, LLM / AIFeb 2026 – Present

Consulting / Self

Built a proof-of-concept French language learning platform (rusty-french.com) for B1+ learners using generated translations and audio. Uses a Rust toolchain for HTML templating, unit tests, CSP validation, content feature flags, analytics, and mobile site performance.
Designed a series of “unspooling” exercises that demonstrate Rust concepts, generated by Claude LLM.

Principal Site Reliability EngineerOct 2021 – Jul 2022

Treasure Financial

Automated deployments for GCP-hosted services, moving from a sprint-based structure (2+ weeks) to a daily launch cadence for all modified services as well as hotfixes on demand.
As the lead individual contributor in a seed-stage startup, took charge of on-call duties, stabilized infrastructure, and helped recruit and hire a developer team.
Converted Kubernetes configurations into infrastructure as code, enabling scalability and streamlining regulatory compliance.
Deployed Honeycomb for improved observability, restructured alert systems, and streamlined on-call rotations.

Kubernetes, CI/CD, Python, GCP, GKE, UNIX, PagerDuty, Helm, Flux, ArgoCD

Sr. Staff Site Reliability EngineerOct 2020 – Sep 2021

WePay

Restructured the postmortem process to avoid repeated incidents.
Held key roles in site and incident commander on-call rotations; expanded and formalized rotations, ensuring robust failovers and more flexible systems.
Mentored junior and mid-level SRE candidates on process changes, code reviews, and on-call participation.

Kubernetes, Python, GCP

Principal Site Reliability EngineerJun 2018 – Aug 2019

Microsoft

Advocated for Silicon Valley-style site reliability and production methods across all of Microsoft Azure.
Presented tech talks on release engineering and site reliability, consulted with Azure teams globally.

Azure, SRE, Python, Go

Infrastructure EngineerOct 2016 – Jul 2017

Lever

Repaired Chef automation of servers and added test kitchen and CI/CD support, transitioning from manual configs to Terraform for enhanced reliability.
Moved releases from manual system to a rapid, chat-ops deployment.

Chef, EC2, AWS, CI/CD, ChatOps, Elasticsearch, Python, Ansible, SOC2

Senior Release EngineerSep 2012 – Sep 2015

Google

Stabilized Google Play releases, automating builds and reducing deployment time from 20+ hours to 4 hours.
Provided pre-launch release engineering consulting for Google Fi phone service, acting as SRE and RE for Android Metrics.

Python, Go, automation, Borg, UNIX, bash, awk, Kubernetes, TCP/IP

Release EngineerMay 2010 – Sep 2011

Facebook

Performed releases at pre-IPO Facebook, deploying multiple times daily for a product with 450M to 800M daily active users.
24/7 on-call duties with high visibility and responsibility for the site’s operation.

Release EngineerAug 2006 – Mar 2009

Google

Deployed the web front-end for Google Search (GWS / google.com), participating in the on-call rotation.
Automated and deployed Google Ads, responsible for the bulk of Google’s revenue.