Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (fully remote within the United States) for an AI-driven platform. You will lead reliability initiatives across complex cloud infrastructure, AI workloads, and internal developer enablement systems, partnering with platform, software engineering, and AI engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own platform reliability initiatives, defining and managing SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Design resilient infrastructure patterns for AI pipelines, including observability, failure detection, graceful degradation, and workload isolation.
• Lead incident response, disaster recovery planning, and post-incident reviews to drive long-term improvements.
• Establish reliability standards, deployment best practices, and scalable CI/CD workflows with engineering teams.
• Build and maintain observability using monitoring, tracing, logging, and telemetry.
• Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC), cloud cost optimization (FinOps), and automation strategies.
• Build/enhance Internal Developer Platforms (IDP), service catalogs, and self-service tooling.
• Mentor junior and intermediate engineers and support technical growth and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (CS/Engineering or related) or equivalent practical experience.
• 6–8 years in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or DevOps with technical leadership responsibilities.
• Deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and GitOps.
• Strong observability and operational tooling experience (including distributed tracing, monitoring).
• Proficiency in Python and/or Bash scripting; experience with microservices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (e.g., Backstage) is highly desirable.
• Strong analytical, communication, mentoring, and problem-solving skills.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience supporting AI/ML infrastructure, LLM integrations, or agentic systems.
• Experience with disaster recovery, policy-as-code, regulated environments, or FinOps.