Alembic

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

San Francisco HQ. Posted 10 months ago

The role

You will build, automate, and maintain infrastructure for data pipelines, ML workloads, and real-time analytics systems. You will partner with engineers and data scientists to scale the platform with reliability and observability.

What you will do

  • Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure for real-time analytics and machine learning workloads
  • Improve system reliability and performance through automation, observability, and proactive capacity planning
  • Own and evolve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, rollback mechanisms, and config management
  • Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes
  • Collaborate across engineering and data science teams
  • Ensure security, compliance, and operational readiness across cloud infrastructure
  • Drive post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives

Required qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
  • 5+ years of experience with datacenter operations and/or system and network administration
  • Experience with containerization (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes)
  • Strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and systems performance tuning
  • Strong-to-expert facility with SSH, terminal, shell and the Linux command line
  • Solid understanding of infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible)
  • Good programming skills and ability to apply sound coding principles to IaC and scripting code with languages such as Terraform, Ansible, Bash (shell scripting), and/or Python
  • Experience with monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK, OpenTelemetry)
  • Proficiency with CI/CD tools and pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, etc.)
  • Ability to debug complex systems and automate solutions in scripting languages
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally

Nice to have

  • Experience with cloud and managed services (e.g., AWS)
  • Experience supporting data-intensive platforms (Spark, Airflow, Kafka, etc.)
  • Familiarity with security practices for cloud-native applications and infrastructure
  • Experience in high-compliance or SOC-2 environments

About the company

alembic is a company solving real-world enterprise problems.

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