Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Founding Staff SRE for Kong's internal developer platform (Volcano). Define reliability posture, build multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure, establish GitOps/CI-CD, and scale managed data services.
Member of Technical Staff, Infrastructure & Scaling
Builds, operates, and scales infrastructure for web/AI products, focusing on reliability, cost-efficiency, and handling large language models. Requires expertise in distributed systems, cloud platforms, performance tuning, and scalable architectures.
150k – 300kPalo Alto, CASan Francisco, CADevOps / SREOnsite
About the role
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and scale infrastructure, including around large language models.
- Ensure systems are reliable and cost-efficient as the company grows.
- Anticipate bottlenecks and evolve architecture to meet increasing demands.
- Build tools and systems to maintain high engineering velocity.
Requirements
- Deep intuition on distributed systems, cloud platforms, performance tuning, and scalable architecture.
- Ability to reason about trade-offs between cost, reliability, and speed of iteration.
- Passion for enabling teams to build faster and ship confidently.
- Infrastructure supporting products used by millions without issues.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Generous equity
- Visa sponsorships
- 401K plans
- Daily lunch & office snacks
- Dinner at the office
- Unlimited vacation
- Caltrain pass reimbursement
Skills
Distributed SystemsCloud PlatformsKubernetesPerformance TuningScalable ArchitectureLLMsInfrastructure As CodeMonitoring ToolsAWSGCP
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