Site Reliability Engineer
Leads campus-scale site reliability for a data center environment, owning observability, incident command, postmortems, runbooks, and cross-functional reliability initiatives across infrastructure and facilities. Requires a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and at least five years in SRE, systems engineering, or large-scale operations.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own monitoring architecture and signal quality, including alerting, suppression, redesign, and incorporating NOC feedback.
- Provide technical incident leadership for SEV events, including bridge coordination, timelines, and severity management.
- Run blameless postmortems and drive corrective actions to completion.
- Lead cross-functional reliability projects across compute, network, storage, and facility signal boundaries.
- Build and maintain playbooks, run game days, and maintain cross-discipline dependency maps.
- Own runbook quality jointly with the NOC.
- Define error budgets and availability objectives at campus and service boundaries.
- Participate in on-call rotations and incident response for SEV-class events.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability, systems engineering, or large-scale production operations.
- Large-scale incident command experience and calm technical leadership during incidents.
- Experience designing monitoring and observability at fleet or campus scale, including alert hygiene, suppression, and signal quality.
- Experience across at least two of compute, network, storage, power, and cooling/facilities telemetry.
- Experience writing and operating playbooks or runbooks with a 24/7 operations or NOC partner.
- Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting for automation and analysis.
- General experience with at least one systems language such as C, C++, Java, Go, or Rust.
- Strong problem-solving, data-driven reliability engineering, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI/ML infrastructure or supercomputing environments.
- Hands-on experience defining and using SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
- Experience running game days, dependency mapping, and closed-loop corrective action programs.
- Familiarity with data center hardware and plant signals, including servers, GPUs, networking, power, and cooling.
- Experience at a fast-paced startup or technology company.
Skills
Python, Bash, C, C++, Java, Go, Rust, Observability, Incident Management, SLOs, Slis, Error Budgets, Kubernetes, Data Center Operations
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