# Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

**Company:** [Baseten](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/baseten)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $165k – $330k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi, GitHub Actions, Gitlab Ci, CircleCI, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Elk Stack
**Posted:** 2025-10-09

> Site Reliability Engineer builds and maintains scalable infrastructure for ML model deployment, automates CI/CD pipelines, and ensures reliability using tools like Kubernetes and Terraform. Collaborates cross-functionally, owns projects end-to-end, and mentors juniors; bachelor's in CS or related field required.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Build and maintain scalable infrastructure to support the deployment and operation of machine learning models.
- Establish standards and best practices for reliability and performance across the infrastructure.
- Automate processes when relevant, particularly for managing **CI/CD pipelines**.
- Own products and projects end-to-end, functioning as both an engineer and a project manager, with a focus on user empathy, project specification, and end-to-end execution.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Mentor junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing within the organization.
- Navigate ambiguity and exercise good judgment on tradeoffs and tools needed to solve problems, avoiding unnecessary complexity.
- Demonstrate pride, ownership, and accountability for your work.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degree in **Computer Science**, **Engineering**, **Mathematics**, or related field.
- Extensive experience with **Kubernetes**.
- Experience in building and maintaining scalable infrastructure.
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., **Terraform**, **CloudFormation**, **Pulumi**) and **CI/CD** tooling (e.g., **GitHub Actions**, **GitLab CI**, **CircleCI**, **Jenkins**).

## Nice-to-Haves
- Relevant OSS observability experience (**Prometheus**, **ELK stack**, **Grafana**, **OpenTelemetry**).
- Open to learning about machine learning (no prior experience required).

## Benefits
- Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity.
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents.
- Generous PTO policy including company wide Winter Break.
- Paid parental leave.
- Company-facilitated 401(k).
- Exposure to a variety of ML startups.

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