Senior SRE for Scalable AI Infrastructure

Encord; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

25 days annual leave

Annual learning & development budget

Travel for customer visits, events and

Conferences across the UK and Europe

Daily company lunches

Monthly socials & bi-annual team offsi

Job summary

Encord is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our platform engineering team in London. You will help ensure the reliability, performance and scalability of our data-centric AI platform across large-scale pipelines.

You will drive capacity planning, define SLIs/SLOs, own incident response, and collaborate with backend/ML squads to improve deployment pipelines and observability. This role emphasizes blameless postmortems and robust cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in production environments.
• Strong fundamentals in designing resilient distributed systems.
• Understanding of networking, OS and database tech.
• Experience with observability: metrics, logs, traces and alerts.
• Comfortable with on-call rotations and incident responses.

Responsibilities

• Profile and optimise services handling large-scale data pipelines.
• Collaborate with backend/ML teams to improve CI/CD and reliability.
• Define and own SLIs/SLOs/SLAs; build alerting and runbooks.
• Design and maintain cloud infra on GCP/AWS; manage Kubernetes.
• Lead automation and tooling to improve developer productivity.
• Instrument services with tracing, logging and metrics; ensure observability before production.

Skills

Hands-on SRE

DevOps

Platform engineering

Networking fundamentals

Observability fundamentals

Incident management

CI/CD

Tools

Python

Rust

TypeScript

React

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

Encord is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our platform engineering team in London. You will help ensure the reliability, performance and scalability of our data-centric AI platform across large-scale pipelines.

You will drive capacity planning, define SLIs/SLOs, own incident response, and collaborate with backend/ML squads to improve deployment pipelines and observability. This role emphasizes blameless postmortems and robust cloud infrastructure.