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RunpodRunpodUnited States

Site Reliability Engineer

Site Reliability Engineer responsible for defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, building observability (Prometheus/Grafana), automating toil, and driving production readiness for Runpod's AI cloud platform. Requires 5+ years SRE experience, strong Linux/distributed systems knowledge, and scripting skills.

150k – 200k
Remote5+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

Responsibilities

Reliability Engineering

  • 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

Observability & Monitoring

  • Design and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
  • 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

Automation & Toil Reduction

  • Automate recurring operational workflows
  • Build tools and scripts (Python, Go, Bash) to eliminate manual processes
  • Improve deployment safety through automation and guardrails
  • Strengthen CI/CD reliability and release processes

Cross-Functional Reliability Advocacy

  • Partner with engineering teams to improve system resilience
  • Provide guidance on fault tolerance, scalability, and failure handling
  • Contribute to architectural discussions with a reliability-first mindset

Your Impact

  • Increase platform uptime and reduce incident frequency and duration
  • Establish and operationalize SLIs/SLOs across services
  • Improve MTTR through better tooling, automation, and runbooks
  • Strengthen production readiness standards
  • Drive long-term systemic reliability improvements

Requirements

  • 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

Preferred

  • 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

Compensation & Benefits

  • Competitive base pay ranging from $150,000 - $200,000 USD (may be narrowed based on experience, qualifications, and location)
  • Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company (stock options for everyone)
  • Generous medical, dental & vision plans
  • Flexible PTO
  • Remote-first work with collaborative team using Slack

Skills

SRELinuxNetworkingContainersDistributed SystemsSliSloIncident ResponsePostmortemsPythonGoBashPrometheusGrafanaMonitoring And Alerting

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