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.