Site Reliability Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Define and implement SLIs/SLOs for critical services
• ▹Lead incident response and coordinate cross-team mitigation efforts
• ▹Conduct blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are completed
• ▹Perform production readiness reviews for new services and features
• ▹Identify systemic risks and drive preventative improvements
• ▹Design and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• ▹Improve signal-to-noise ratio in alerts and reduce alert fatigue
• ▹Build internal tooling for reliability tracking and reporting, improving visibility into GPU performance and distributed systems health
• ▹Automate recurring operational workflows with Python, Go, and Bash
• ▹Improve deployment safety through automation and guardrails, strengthen CI/CD reliability
• ▹Partner with engineering teams to improve system resilience, fault tolerance, and scalability

Requirements

• ▹5+ years of experience in SRE, Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering
• ▹Strong Linux systems and networking expertise
• ▹Experience managing containerized production systems
• ▹Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes
• ▹Experience defining and managing SLIs/SLOs
• ▹Proven incident response and postmortem leadership experience
• ▹Strong scripting or programming skills
• ▹Experience with monitoring and alerting systems
• ▹Excellent written communication skills
• ▹Successful completion of a background check

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML platforms
• ▹Experience improving reliability in high-growth or large-scale environments
• ▹Familiarity with GPU observability tooling
• ▹Experience with Infrastructure as Code
• ▹Experience working in startup environments
• ▹Experience building internal reliability platforms or frameworks

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Competitive base pay of $150,000-$200,000
• ▹Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company
• ▹Generous medical, dental & vision plans
• ▹Flexible PTO
• ▹Remote-first role with Slack as the main communication channel

About the company

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud: more than one million developers use it from research to production, and the platform has processed more than 20 billion inference requests; Runpod closed a $100M Series A in June 2026.