# Site Reliability Engineering

**Company:** [Zoox](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/zoox)
**Location:** Foster City, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $140k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, GCP, Azure, Python, Go, C/C++, Java
**Posted:** 2026-05-04

> Site Reliability Engineer owns the lifecycle of services powering autonomous vehicles, designing fault-tolerant systems, building monitoring tools, leading incident response, and ensuring infrastructure resilience with large-scale data processing on CPUs/GPUs. Requires 5+ years SRE experience, cloud/IaC expertise, Kubernetes, and strong programming skills.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Architect and optimize scalable systems to design, implement, and improve highly reliable infrastructure.
- Build proactive monitoring solutions including advanced monitoring, alerting, and reporting tools.
- Collaborate across engineering teams to elevate system architecture, streamline deployments, and drive automation.
- Lead incident resolution through root cause analyses and deploy corrective actions.
- Ensure business continuity by designing and implementing disaster recovery plans.

## Qualifications

**Required:**
- 5+ years of experience in site reliability engineering or similar, managing large-scale distributed systems.
- Proven experience with major cloud platforms (**AWS**, **GCP**, **Azure**) and IaC tools (**Terraform**, **Ansible**, **Salt**, **CloudFormation**).
- Technical expertise in container orchestration technologies such as **Kubernetes**.
- Deep understanding of networking protocols, storage solutions, and database technologies.
- Strong programming and scripting skills in **Python**, **Go**, **C/C++**, or **Java**.

**Bonus:**
- Experience in automotive or autonomous vehicle industry.
- Knowledge of security best practices and compliance requirements.

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