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)
• ▹Improve signal-to-noise ratio in alerts and reduce alert fatigue
• ▹Automate recurring operational workflows using Python, Go, and Bash
• ▹Improve deployment safety and strengthen CI/CD reliability
• ▹Partner with engineering teams to improve system resilience and fault tolerance

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, Slack-driven collaborative culture

About the company

Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud, used by more than one million developers to experiment, train, and scale AI, with over 20 billion inference requests processed. The company closed a $100M Series A in June 2026.