Lead/Manager AI Infra Systems Engineering Team

Together AI; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive health insurance plans

Pre-tax flexible spending accounts

Mental health support and services

Dental and vision insurance

Income protection & retirement

401(k) plan

STD & LTD insurance

AD&D insurance

Life insurance

Team-driven celebrations and events

Flexible time off policy

Monthly team lunches

Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax be

Job summary

Together AI in Amsterdam is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to guide the AI Infra team and keep our production systems highly available. You will own on-call rotations, drive reliability upgrades and shape deployment processes, partnering with software and platform teams.

The role requires 7+ years in SRE, leadership experience, and expert use of Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes, plus strong cloud know-how. Join us to scale our infrastructure for a growing user base.

Qualifications

• Lead a team of AI Infra (Systems Engineers) to ensure availability.
• 2 years as a Lead SRE.
• 7+ years of professional SRE or related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages.
• Expert knowledge of Ansible (roles, playbooks), Terraform, and Kubernetes.
• Advanced knowledge of cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Lead the SRE team and manage on-call incident response.
• Build and run infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform and Kubernetes to enable scaling to many users.
• Develop monitoring systems for high-quality service.
• Design and implement deployment and upgrade processes.
• Debug production issues across the stack.
• Identify reliability, performance and availability improvements for the product architecture.
• Plan the growth of Together AI’s infrastructure.

Skills

Leadership

Coaching

Programming

Collaboration

SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

• Lead a team of AI Infra (Systems Engineers) at Together based out of our office in Amsterdam, you and the SRE team are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and production systems running smoothly.
• Be on an on‑call (PagerDuty) rotation to respond to incidents that impact availability
• Manage, develop and coach the SRE Team
• Build and run our infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes to enable scaling to a massive number of concurrent users
• Build monitoring systems to ensure the highest quality service for our customers
• Design and implement operational processes (such as deployments and upgrades)
• Debug production issues across all services and levels of the stack
• Identify improvements for the product architecture from the reliability, performance and availability perspectives
• Plan the growth of Together AI’s infrastructure

Benefits

• Competitive health insurance plans
• Pre‑tax flexible spending accounts
• Mental health support and services
• Dental and vision insurance
• Income protection & retirement
• 401(k) plan
• STD & LTD insurance
• AD&D insurance
• Life insurance
• Team‑driven celebrations and events
• Flexible time off policy
• Monthly team lunches
• Monthly commuting stipend + pre‑tax bene

You specialize in systems (operating systems, storage subsystems, networking), while implementing best practices for availability, reliability and scalability, with varied interests in algorithms and distributed systemsYou are a blend of a pragmatic operator and a software engineer that applies sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our operating environments and codebaseIdeally 2 years as a Lead SREProficiency in programming/scripting languages7+ years of professional SRE or related experienceAbility to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter expertsBachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experienceDirect experience in monitoring and observability practicesExpert knowledge of Ansible (roles, playbooks), Terraform, and KubernetesAdvanced knowledge of cloud services