Senior Site Reliability Engineer

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About the Team:

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer you will be a key technical leader driving the design and optimization of our Kubernetes-based infrastructure and CI/CD systems. You will also own the infrastructure behind our AI tooling building MCP servers and defining safe auditable AI access patterns for production systems. Youll work hands-on with engineering teams to accelerate delivery ensure production reliability and embed best practices for automation observability and resilience.

About the Role:

• Design build and scale Kubernetes infrastructure for secure multi-tenant high-availability applications.
• Build and operate AI tooling infrastructure stand up MCP servers and establish secure governed AI access and guardrails for production systems.
• Optimize and maintain CI/CD pipelines improving reliability speed and rollback safety.
• Implement progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green and canary deployments.
• Advance Infrastructure as Code with Terraform Helm and Argo CD defining reusable patterns for the org.
• Operate and optimize streaming and analytics infrastructure: Kafka Flink and ClickHouse.
• Build automated testing into the CI/CD lifecycle.
• Improve system observability define SLOs alerts and dashboards.
• Lead incident response and postmortems focusing on root cause and durable fixes.
• Mentor engineers across teams on Kubernetes CI/CD and cloud infrastructure.

Required Qualifications:

• 6 years in SRE DevOps or Infrastructure roles with significant production Kubernetes experience.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/LLM tooling into engineering or operational workflows (e.g. MCP servers AI agents acting on infrastructure) and a clear grasp of the security and governance considerations of giving AI access to production.
• Proven success building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI or similar).
• Strong with Kubernetes internals and managed services like EKS GKE or AKS.
• Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Helm Pulumi) and GitOps.
• Proficient in Python Bash or Go.
• Knowledge of observability tooling (Prometheus Grafana Datadog OpenTelemetry).
• Production experience with Kafka Flink and ClickHouse.
• Strong communication and cross-team collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Multi-region or multi-cluster Kubernetes experience.
• Chaos engineering or resilience testing.
• Security scanning compliance automation or policy-as-code.
• LLM observability/tracing tooling (Langsmith Langfuse) or MLOps workflows.
• Contributions toopen-source Kubernetes or CI/CD projects.

Benefits:

Specific to each country we offer a competitive salary stock options Health benefits and unlimited PTO parental leave tuition reimbursements and much more!

The estimated total compensation range for this position is $152000 - $195000 (base plus bonus). Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors including but not limited to affordability skills qualifications and experience and may vary from the addition to base salary employees may also be eligible for annual performance-based incentive compensation awards and equity among other company benefits.

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