# Software Engineer, Site Reliability

**Company:** [Fal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fal)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Go, Bash, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, Victoriametrics, Datadog, Fluxcd, Argo CD, Ebpf
**Posted:** 2026-03-13

> Seasoned SRE owning reliability of Kubernetes-based production infrastructure at scale for a generative AI platform. Responsibilities include operating clusters, CI/CD pipelines, SLOs, monitoring, automation with AI, and driving improvements via chaos engineering. Requires 5+ years production experience.

## Job Description

## Key Responsibilities
- Own and operate Kubernetes infrastructure: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, networking, and multi-tenant isolation for customer workloads
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure
- Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate analysis and resolution of production issues, and improve software development speed, reliability and maintainability
- Build dashboards, alerting, and anomaly detection across our systems
- Define and enforce SLOs and build out incident response processes
- Manage and improve networking, load balancing, and service mesh configurations
- Drive reliability improvements across the stack through automation, runbooks, and chaos engineering

## Requirements
- 5+ years experience in managing critical production systems and software development workflows
- Strong production experience setting up and operating Kubernetes at scale, using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Deep knowledge of Linux networking, container networking (CNI plugins, VXLAN, BGP), and DNS
- Experience building CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in Python and either Go or Bash for tooling and automation
- Strong experience with logging, monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Thanos, VictoriaMetrics, Datadog)
- Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams
- Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership, and constantly seeks improvement

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with managing GPU and AI/ML workloads
- Experience with kernel-based monitoring and routing (eBPF, XDP)
- Experience with security tooling (Falco, Coroot, SIEM)
- Experience with bare metal Kubernetes networking (Calico, Cilium, MetalLB)
- Experience with distributed storage systems (Ceph, Longhorn, etc.)

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