# Member of Technical Staff - Reliability Engineering

**Company:** [Fireworks AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fireworks-ai)
**Location:** San Mateo, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $240k – $290k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Linux, TCP/IP, Http, gRPC, Python, Go, C++, Rust, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
**Posted:** 2026-08-17

> Owns reliability standards, incident management, observability, failure testing, and automation for a high-throughput AI infrastructure platform. The role requires deep Linux, networking, software, cloud-native, and distributed-systems experience, along with the ability to influence teams across the organization.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Define reliability standards, including SLOs, error budgets, and production-readiness criteria, using real system telemetry.
- Own the reliability toolchain: logging and telemetry pipelines, alerting standards, failure injection, load testing, self-healing automation, and AI-assisted investigation tooling.
- Ensure customer-facing reliability issues have clear ownership and are resolved.
- Identify and address reliability failures at system boundaries, including retry amplification, non-composing timeouts, and unmapped dependencies.
- Coordinate live production incidents, run blameless postmortems, and track follow-up actions to completion.
- Automate repetitive operational work to reduce on-call toil.
- Partner with cloud infrastructure, inference and training, performance, product, and control-plane teams on capacity, multi-region risk, serving and training failures, zero-downtime rollouts, and customer-facing reliability.

## Requirements

- 5+ years of experience with Linux internals, system performance troubleshooting, and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, HTTP, and gRPC.
- 5+ years of experience writing production-grade tools and systems code in Python, Go, C++, or Rust.
- Experience operating and debugging Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker in high-throughput production environments.
- Experience with high-throughput control planes, microservices, or multi-region systems.
- Knowledge of fault-tolerant design, SLO/SLA management, automated failover, and high-availability architecture.
- Ability to influence teams and drive adoption of standards through credibility and useful tooling.
- Willingness to work across unfamiliar parts of the stack when problems cross system boundaries.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

## Nice-to-Haves

- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and actionable alerting.
- Exposure to GPUs, inference serving, or distributed training.
- Experience building agents or LLM-based tooling for investigation, triage, or automation.
- Contributions to infrastructure, systems, or machine-learning serving open-source projects.
- Comfort working pragmatically and collaboratively in a startup environment.

## Benefits and Compensation

- Solve challenging AI infrastructure problems, including low-latency inference and scalable model serving.
- Work with emerging technology used by businesses and developers globally.
- High ownership and direct impact in a fast-growing engineering organization.
- Collaboration with experienced engineers and AI researchers.

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