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Site Reliability Engineer

Backend Developer • Remote • Full-time • 📍 Remote - USA

Runpod's Reliability team owns the availability, performance, and operational excellence of the global platform; the Site Reliability Engineer focuses on the stability and resilience of the distributed platform, working closely with engineering teams.

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

Proactive problem-solvingAutomation-first mindsetStrong ownership of production systemsCross-team collaboration

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.

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