[Hiring] Senior SRE Engineer @Operant AI

Operant AI; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 85.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading tech startup is hiring a Senior SRE Engineer. This remote-first position focuses on ensuring the resilience and security of cloud-native products. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in an SRE role, hands-on with Kubernetes and cloud automation. You will build and manage high-availability infrastructures while collaborating closely with engineering teams. Competitive benefits include medical insurance and stock options.

Leistungen

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Life insurance

401k

Paid holidays

Generous PTO

Stock options

Qualifikationen

• 3+ years experience in an active hands-on SRE role.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native products.
• Ability to work independently as part of a remote team.

Aufgaben

• Monitor products for availability, security, and reliability.
• Document best practices for operational behavior.
• Collaborate with engineering leaders on projects.

Kenntnisse

Kubernetes

Golang

Python

Excellent communication

Ausbildung

BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

Jobbeschreibung

Aug 28, 2025 - Operant AI is hiring a remote Senior SRE Engineer. Location: USA, Canada.

Senior SRE Engineer

We are seeking someone to join our Engineering team and help keep our platforms and services resilient and secure. If you are excited by the idea of being a roll-up-your-sleeves engineer at a startup that is poised to lead the next wave of application security products, we would love to hear from you.

Who We Are:

We’re in business to secure the modern world. Operant’s unique technology solves several of the biggest problems in modern cybersecurity - protecting applications across every layer of the cloud native stack from infra to APIs, and data to AI. We are passionate about bringing state of the art technological innovations from Operating Systems/Distributed Systems/AI to the world of AI and cloud security, and building a product that is ready to take on the rising complexity and massive scale of today’s cloud native applications. Having already been named as a vendor in Gartner’s market guide for AI and Agentic AI security, API Protection and Kubernetes Runtime Security as well as Forrester’s Zero Trust landscape, the sky's the limit for leading this growing market.

Responsibilities:

Build the Devops/SRE functions for the company's product which include activities around -

• Monitoring of the products and services for availability, security, reliability, and scale
• Document and codify best practices around operational behavior of services
• Build the infrastructure that supports Incident triaging, troubleshooting, remediations, and post mortems
• Build, manage CI/CD infra for dev, staging, production environments
• Monitor and maintain security best practices within code development
• Track and perform tasks towards maintenance of annual SOC2 compliance controls
• Create and communicate on-call schedules and processes to the broader engineering teams
• Document and communicate design decisions with the broader team to support a remote, asynchronous work culture
• Function independently while being able to make technical choices in the presence of unknowns
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other engineering leaders
• Take active interest in understanding customer problems while building features in an iterative manner
• Adapt SRE practices and processes quickly to scale with a fast growing startup and product

Qualifications:

• 3+ years experience of being in an active hands-on SRE role in a fast paced engineering org building SaaS/cloud-native products and services
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Golang, and Python
• Knowledge of major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their automation toolchains
• Excellent communication skills, and the ability to work independently as part of a remote team
• BS, MS, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Security, or similar equivalent industry experience is preferred

Work Hours & Location:

• Operant is a remote-first company and welcomes qualified applicants from across the US and Canada.
• This position will require you to be available during core PST business hours (9am-5pm) and to adjust schedules occasionally based on customer and business needs including business travel, client meeting/call schedules, and team off-sites.

What you can expect from us:

Operant is an equal opportunity workplace where you will find an open and supportive environment to share your thoughts and ideas, while enabling you to springboard your career in a high-growth, high-energy startup.

Benefits:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Generous PTO
• Stock options