# Site Reliability Engineer, Frontier Systems Infrastructure

**Company:** [OpenAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/openai)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $255k – $490k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Python, Go, Terraform, Linux, GPU, Bare-Metal, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure-As-Code, Monitoring, Observability, Networking
**Posted:** 2025-11-03

> Site Reliability Engineer scales massive Kubernetes clusters, automates bare-metal provisioning, and ensures reliability of hyperscale supercomputers for AI model training. Requires deep Kubernetes expertise, programming skills, and hands-on infrastructure operations experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Spin up and scale large Kubernetes clusters, including automation for provisioning, bootstrapping, and cluster lifecycle management
- Build software abstractions that unify multiple clusters and present a seamless interface to training workloads
- Own node bring-up from bare metal through firmware upgrades, ensuring fast, repeatable deployment at massive scale
- Improve operational metrics such as reducing cluster restart times (e.g., from hours to minutes) and accelerating firmware or OS upgrade cycles
- Integrate networking and hardware health systems to deliver end-to-end reliability across servers, switches, and data center infrastructure
- Develop monitoring and observability systems to detect issues early and keep clusters stable under extreme load
- Be expected to execute at the same level as a software engineer

## Requirements
- Experience as an infrastructure, systems, or distributed systems engineer in large-scale or high-availability environments
- Strong knowledge of Kubernetes internals, cluster scaling patterns, and containerized workloads
- Proficiency in cloud infrastructure concepts (compute, networking, storage, security) and in automating cluster or data center operations

## Nice-to-haves
- Background with GPU workloads, firmware management, or high-performance computing

## Qualifications
- Deep experience operating or scaling Kubernetes clusters or similar container orchestration systems in high-growth or hyperscale environments
- Strong programming or scripting skills (Python, Go, or similar) and familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Comfortable with bare-metal Linux environments, GPU hardware, and large-scale networking
- Enjoy solving fast-moving, high-impact operational problems and building automation to eliminate manual work
- Can balance careful engineering with the urgency of keeping mission-critical systems running

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