Senior Site Reliability Engineer -AI Infrastructure Operations

The Role

This is a senior SRE role for someone who sets the reliability bar and then pulls the rest of the team up to it. You'll own the hardest problems on the platform: the automation other engineers build on, the services that can't go down, and the design decisions that determine whether either holds up at scale.

You'll still carry a pager, but the real job is making sure it fires less, for everyone, over time.

What You'll Do

• Own reliability for critical production services end to end; set the direction, not just respond to what breaks.
• Grow the team, not just the systems; mentor other SREs through design review, pairing, and incident debriefs, and hold the bar that pulls everyone up to it.
• Set the standards the rest of the team works to: the SLO framework, the incident process, and the on-call practices that keep it sustainable.
• Get in early on design reviews and architecture decisions, so reliability is built in rather than bolted on after the first outage.
• Lead the hardest incidents and the root causes nobody else can crack; turn each one into a change that keeps it from coming back.
• Build the tooling and automation that removes toil for the whole team, not just your own surface area.

What You'll Bring

• 6-10 years in SRE, systems engineering, or software engineering, with real ownership of production at scale in a data center or cloud environment.
• Strong software engineering skills (Python, Go, or similar); you build tools other engineers adopt, not scripts that run once and rot.
• Deep command of Linux, networking, and distributed systems, plus the judgment to know where the real failure modes hide.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes and virtualized or bare-metal environments; comfortable close to the metal, not just the cloud console.
• Experience running AI or GPU workloads, or high-performance computing (HPC); if not, the depth to get there fast.
• Reliability practices you put in place that outlasted you: SLOs, observability and alerting at scale, incident process, on-call that people can actually live with.
• A track record as the senior voice in incidents and design reviews, trusted to make the call under pressure.
• A habit of raising the people around you without being asked to.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RDMA).

On-Call and Pace

• A quick note on the shape of the job.
• This role sits close to production, so there is an on-call rotation, and some weeks are busier than others.
• As a senior on the team, you help set how that rotation runs and, more to the point, how we make it lighter over time.
• We share the load fairly, and we treat every page as a signal worth acting on rather than just an interruption.
• The goal is to leave the systems quieter than you found them, so each rotation asks less of the person carrying it.
• If that's the kind of ownership you're drawn to, you'll do well here.

What We Offer

• Competitive base plus equity, reviewed every 12 months.
• Real ownership from the start, and a direct hand in how reliability works across the platform.
• Flexibility that treats you as an adult; we care that the work gets done, and we trust you to shape your day.

Salary Range $170,000 - $265,000 USD. Actual compensation varies with skill set, experience, and location, and the role may be eligible for bonus and equity.

Salary Range $170,000—$265,000 USD

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