# Site Reliability Engineer

**Company:** [Astera](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/astera)
**Location:** Emeryville, CA
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Salary:** $100k – $300k/yr
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Tailscale, Talos Linux
**Posted:** 2026-01-29

> Owns digital infrastructure for AI research, managing compute access, auto-scaling, resource visibility, and reproducibility using Kubernetes and observability tools. Requires systems intuition, operational rigor, and pragmatism for experimental workloads.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own digital infrastructure powering research, including compute resources from third parties, container registries, and dashboards.
- Ensure easy and efficient sharing of resources, reliability, and accessibility.
- Provide compute access, resource visibility into utilization and cluster health.
- Enable auto-scaling of compute resources based on demand.
- Manage access to ensure right people have appropriate permissions.
- Drive deterministic deployments and reproducible research environments.
- Automate operational processes for efficiency.

**Current stack:** Ansible, **Kubernetes**, **Docker**, Tailscale, **Python**, **Grafana**, **Prometheus**, Talos Linux.

## Qualifications
- **Ownership:** Comfortable being accountable for cluster health and capacity.
- **Systems Intuition:** Understand schedulers, containers, networking, storage, hardware interactions; reason about failure modes.
- **Operational Rigor:** Value observability, reproducibility, clear boundaries; leave understandable systems.
- **Pragmatism:** Support experimental workloads without rigid production constraints.

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