Senior SRE — AI Cloud Infra with Full Ownership

FDE Times; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 541,000 - 823,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Remote work reimbursement

Disability & life insurance

Job summary

Tavily is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to manage Kubernetes clusters, own infrastructure as code, and lead CI/CD pipelines. You will optimize real-time data pipelines and observability across regions, working with a small team to own end-to-end infra and drive scalable, reliable deployments.

The role emphasizes production reliability, capacity planning, and cost management in a high-velocity environment with multi-region deployments and strong API design expectations.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years in a DevOps or SRE role, working in production environments.
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar).
• Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Built or maintained observability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting).
• Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically.

Responsibilities

• Managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
• Owning infrastructure as code for all resources
• Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments
• Maintaining and optimize real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors
• Building out monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Debugging production issues across services
• Managing cloud costs and capacity planning
• Working closely with a small engineering team — you'd own infra, not a slice of it

Skills

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

GitOps

Observability

Production incidents management

Distributed systems design

Cloud environments

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Tavily is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to manage Kubernetes clusters, own infrastructure as code, and lead CI/CD pipelines. You will optimize real-time data pipelines and observability across regions, working with a small team to own end-to-end infra and drive scalable, reliable deployments.

The role emphasizes production reliability, capacity planning, and cost management in a high-velocity environment with multi-region deployments and strong API design expectations.