Site Reliability Engineer

Remote - USA. Posted 4 months ago

The role

You will ensure the stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed platform. You will work on reliability frameworks, SLO design, automation, and production hardening.

What you will do

Define and implement SLIs/SLOs for critical services
Lead incident response and coordinate cross-team mitigation efforts
Conduct blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are completed
Perform production readiness reviews for new services and features
Identify systemic risks and drive preventative improvements
Design and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards
Improve signal-to-noise ratio in alerts and reduce alert fatigue
Build internal tooling for reliability tracking and reporting
Improve visibility into GPU performance and distributed systems health
Automate recurring operational workflows

Required qualifications

5+ years of experience in SRE, Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering
Strong Linux systems and Networking expertise
Experience managing containerized production systems
Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes
Experience defining and managing SLIs/SLOs
Proven incident response and postmortem leadership experience
Strong scripting or programming skills
Experience with monitoring and alerting systems
Excellent written communication skills
Successful completion of a background check

Nice to have

Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML platforms
Experience improving reliability in high-growth or large scale environments
Familiarity with GPU observability tooling
Experience with Infrastructure as Code
Experience working in startup environments
Experience building internal reliability platforms or frameworks

Benefits

Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
Generous medical, dental & vision plans
Flexible PTO

Before you apply

Successful completion of a background check
We welcome every qualified candidate eligible to work in the United States; however, we are currently unable to sponsor employment visas.

About the company

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud. It is a small, remote-first team building a platform for developers to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI.