Staff SRE: Cloud Reliability & Scale on GCP

SoundHound AI; Toronto; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Healthcare

Paid time off

Job summary

SoundHound AI is hiring a Staff Software Engineer (SRE) to secure reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure across Canada. You’ll design and maintain robust systems on GCP, automate CI/CD, and drive incident response with a focus on security and cost efficiency.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and lead PCI/SOC compliance initiatives while pushing for operational maturity and self-service tooling.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12+ years in software engineering with SRE/DevOps background.
• Proficient with Google Cloud Platform services (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub).
• Strong IaC experience with Terraform or Pulumi.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, and service mesh concepts.
• Strong monitoring/observability using Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring.
• Experience designing high-throughput distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and mentoring abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable infra on GCP.
• Architect and automate CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Implement robust monitoring, alerts, and observability strategies.
• Work with engineering to optimize performance, cost, and reliability.
• Lead incident response, post-mortems, and remediation efforts.
• Eliminate toil and promote self-service capabilities.
• Collaborate on infra roadmaps and security standards.
• Lead department-wide PCI/SOC compliance initiatives.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)

Observability/Monitoring

SRE/DevOps

Distributed systems

Incident response

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

SoundHound AI is hiring a Staff Software Engineer (SRE) to secure reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud infrastructure across Canada. You’ll design and maintain robust systems on GCP, automate CI/CD, and drive incident response with a focus on security and cost efficiency.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and lead PCI/SOC compliance initiatives while pushing for operational maturity and self-service tooling.