Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - grok.com & API

xAI; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI technology firm in London is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to manage backend services for their platform. Ideal candidates will have expert knowledge of Kubernetes and continuous deployment systems, ensuring scalability and reliability of their services. This role involves working closely with a motivated team while attending office five days a week, with some remote flexibility.

Benefits

Equity

Comprehensive medical coverage

Vision coverage

Dental coverage

Access to Aviva pension plan

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Various discounts

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Expert knowledge of continuous deployment systems such as Buildkite and ArgoCD.
• Expert knowledge of monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.
• Expert knowledge of infrastructure as code technologies such as Pulumi or Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Work on backend services for grok.com and API.
• Ensure services are highly scalable and reliable.
• Participate in coordination with the Palo Alto team.

Skills

Kubernetes

Continuous deployment systems (Buildkite, ArgoCD)

Monitoring technologies (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty)

Infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform)

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - grok.com & API

London, UK

About xAI

xAI’s mission is to create AI systems that can accurately understand the universe and aid humanity in its pursuit of knowledge. Our team is small, highly motivated, and focused on engineering excellence. This organization is for individuals who appreciate challenging themselves and thrive on curiosity. We operate with a flat organizational structure. All employees are expected to be hands-on and to contribute directly to the company’s mission. Leadership is given to those who show initiative and consistently deliver excellence. Work ethic and strong prioritization skills are important. All engineers are expected to have strong communication skills. They should be able to concisely and accurately share knowledge with their teammates.

About the team

You will work on the team that is responsible for the backend services that power grok.com and our API. Our team is currently based primarily in London with a small but growing number of engineers located in Palo Alto. We focus on writing highly scalable and reliable services that can efficiently process tens of thousands of queries per second. The services are hosted on a number of Kubernetes clusters (on-prem & cloud).

About the role

An ideal candidate meets at least the following requirements:

• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes,
• Expert knowledge of continuous deployment systems such as Buildkite and ArgoCD,
• Expert knowledge of monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty,
• Expert knowledge of infrastructure as code technologies such as Pulumi or Terraform.

Location

We hire engineers in London and in Palo Alto. We usually work from the office 5 days a week but allow for work-from-home days when required. Candidates joining the London team must be willing to attend late meetings at least once a week to coordinate with the rest of our team.

Application process

After submitting your application, the team reviews your CV and statement of exceptional work. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 15-minute interview (phone interview) during which a member of our team will ask some basic technical questions. If you clear the initial phone interview, you will enter the main process, which consists of two technical interviews. All interviews will be conducted via Google Meet.

Rewards

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to our Aviva pension plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.