Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Doghouse Recruitment; Brussel; À distance; EUR 120 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Doghouse Recruitment is seeking a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability for a bare-metal Linux environment. You will define SLIs/SLOs, manage error budgets, and ship changes to reduce incidents while improving latency in a high-throughput AI workload platform.

Work near the metal on Linux performance, kernel tuning, and network debugging. This is a 12+ years senior staff role with 100% remote EU and quarterly RSU/bonus considerations.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Linux on bare metal in data centres across large fleets.
• Deep Linux expertise with kernel tuning and OS-level performance fixes.
• Strong Python or Go coding skills beyond automation.
• Proven track record in infrastructure automation at scale.
• Ownership of production incidents from root cause to remediation.
• Solid networking knowledge (DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, loss) in low-latency environments.

Responsabilités

• Own end-to-end production reliability, define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets.
• Ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99).
• Build automation to reduce toil and improve deployment safety (canary/rollback).
• Turn observability into actionable signals rather than noise.
• Work with Hardware Infrastructure to optimize bare-metal Linux performance.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Connaissances

Linux on bare metal

Kernel tuning

Python

Go

Incident ownership

Networking

Outils

Terraform

Puppet

Ansible

Kubernetes

Description du poste

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Bare Metal Linux | Kernel | Python / Go | Remote EU

Our client is building a cloud platform for high-throughput, compute-heavy AI workloads. They operate large-scale infrastructure where failure modes are real, capacity is finite, and reliability needs to be engineered, not “handled”.

We are seeking a Staff SRE who will own production reliability end-to-end for our client: define SLIs/SLOs, run error budget conversations, and ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99). You will build automation to kill toil, improve deployment safety (canary/rollback), and turn observability into signal rather than noise.

This is a bare-metal environment: think Linux, data centres, physical fleets and real hardware constraints, not managed services. You will work close to the metal on Linux performance (CPU/memory/IO contention), kernel tuning, and network debugging (DNS/TCP/TLS, packet loss, congestion). On-call is part of the job, but success is measured by how much you reduce it.

You will sit in our client’s Hardware Infrastructure team and report to a team lead in Europe. This is a staff level role, typically 12 or more years of experience.

Must requirements

• Extensive, recent hands-on experience running Linux on bare metal in data centres, ideally across hundreds or thousands of physical servers, not public cloud only
• Deep Linux expertise, including kernel tuning and troubleshooting performance and stability issues at OS level
• Strong coding skills in Python or Go, beyond automation scripting, and comfortable in a live coding interview
• A track record of building infrastructure automation and tooling that runs at scale
• Ownership of production incidents, from root cause analysis to lasting engineering fixes
• Strong understanding of networking (DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion) and experience in low latency environments such as trading, HPC, gaming or large-scale tech

Nice to have, not critical: Kubernetes on bare metal, InfiniBand, C development, and configuration tooling such as Terraform, Puppet or Ansible.

If you are looking for complexity and a new place to nerd out on infrastructure optimisation, we would love to hear from you.

Location: Europe - 100% Remote.

Total compensation: up to €140.000,- base plus a 25 percent bonus paid quarterly, with RSUs available at staff grade