Site Reliability Engineer - Riyadh

MinIO; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

MinIO is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to work with customers and the engineering team to enhance, optimize, validate, and automate our cloud-native storage platform. The role blends DevOps, software engineering, and SRE to ensure high quality, performance, and durability for demanding workloads across edge, cloud, and on-prem environments.

The candidate will improve features, fix critical issues, and collaborate on architecture, APIs, and integrations while closely supporting customers to

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies and distributed systems.
• Ability to work directly with customers to solve problems and drive product improvements.

Responsibilities

• Enhance, optimize, validate and automate core MinIO software for performance, scalability and security.
• Deliver high-performance distributed storage solutions with cloud-native architectures.
• Validate software in customer environments according to their requirements.
• Improve features, fix critical issues, and contribute to open-source repositories.
• Collaborate with engineers to refine architecture, APIs and integrations.
• Write efficient, well-documented, maintainable code.
• Conduct performance benchmarking and debugging of storage environments.
• Engage with customers to address issues and manage expectations.

Skills

DevOps practices

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Distributed systems

Cloud-native

Go programming

Customer collaboration

Performance debugging

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Microservices

GitOps

Automation testing frameworks

Job description

MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. Built for the speed, scale, and economics that AI and analytics demand, AIStor and MemKV unify every layer of the data stack, from agentic and inference context memory to tables and objects across core, edge, and cloud. Trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100, MinIO is redefining how AI factories, intelligent applications, and autonomous agents secure, persist, and unlock the full value of their data.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with customers as well as the engineering team on enhancing, optimizing, validating and automating our cloud-native storage platform. Your role will be a mix of DevOps and software engineering to assure that MinIo is delivering a very high quality product with high-performance, scalability and durability to enable seamless data storage and retrieval for demanding workloads for customers.

This role requires deep expertise in DevOps practices, SRE, systems programming, distributed computing, and storage architectures. You will work closely with a world-class team of engineers to push the boundaries of object storage performance and reliability.

What You Will Do:

• Enhance, optimize, validate and automate core MinIO software for performance, scalability, and security.
• Help building and delivering high-performance distributed storage solutions with a focus on cloud-native architectures.
• Validate the MinIO Software according to customer environment and requirements, ensuring no surprises are observed at customer deployments.
• Improve existing features, fix critical issues, and contribute to open-source repositories.
• Collaborate with other engineers to refine architecture, APIs, and integrations.
• Write efficient, well-documented, and maintainable code.
• Conduct performance benchmarking and debugging of complex storage environments.
• Work closely with customers to address issues, and manage expectations.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• Desire and ability to directly work with customers to solve their problem with product enhancement and automation.
• Experience in DevOps, GitOps, Automation and testing frameworks.
• Expertise in distributed systems, networking, or high-performance computing.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, containers, microservices).
• Strong proficiency in Go desired (or deep experience in C/C++/Rust with a willingness to learn Go).
• Deep understanding of storage systems, file systems, or databases.
• Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging complex, large-scale applications.
• Contributions to open-source projects are a plus.
• Ability to work in a fast-moving, collaborative environment with a strong sense of ownership.
• Empathy towards the customer and ability to quickly dig in to resolve any customer issue.
• Passion for innovation and staying current with technology trends.
• Self-motivation and a commitment to continuous learning and adopting new tools and frameworks.
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability in delivering high-quality work while directly working with customers..
• A collaborative and team-oriented mindset, thriving in environments that value open communication and shared goals.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, contributing to a positive and productive work environment.
• Attention to detail and fine craftsmanship.

Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.