SRE Engineering Manager — Lead AI Inference Reliability

present of AI; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Baseten in London is hiring an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability Engineering to start and lead a new reliability team, guiding engineers while remaining hands-on with critical infrastructure.

You will design resilient systems, own incident response, and mentor staff across time zones as we scale AI inference workloads. Experience with Kubernetes at scale, multi-cloud deployments, and observability-as-code practices will help you succeed.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience in SRE or a similar role.
• Strong production Kubernetes experience.
• Experience hiring and coaching engineers.
• Hands-on work with incident response and runbooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a new reliability team in London while staying hands-on with critical infrastructure.
• Balance people leadership with technical design reviews and cross-team coordination.
• Own incident response, postmortems, and remediation plans.
• Drive observability improvements and codify monitoring and alerting as code.
• Coordinate across time zones to align on incidents and reliability goals.

Skills

Leadership

Kubernetes

Incident response

Observability as code

Multi-cloud infra

Hiring & coaching

Job description

Baseten in London is hiring an Engineering Manager for Site Reliability Engineering to start and lead a new reliability team, guiding engineers while remaining hands-on with critical infrastructure.

You will design resilient systems, own incident response, and mentor staff across time zones as we scale AI inference workloads. Experience with Kubernetes at scale, multi-cloud deployments, and observability-as-code practices will help you succeed.