AI-Native SRE: Cloud Infra for ML & Product Systems

Formation Bio; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 232,000; Full time

Job summary

Formation Bio seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure and delivery systems that power our AI-driven pharma platform. You will manage cloud workloads across AWS and other providers, ensure observability, and drive automation for product, data, and ML workloads.

You will partner with Product Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science to design scalable infrastructure, apply AI-assisted tooling, and enforce reliability across development to production

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure, or DevOps.
• Production cloud experience with distributed systems and reliability focus.
• Strong diagnostics, incident response, root cause analysis, observability, and automation.
• Experience with AWS and Snowflake; Azure/GCP/Vercel is a plus.
• Hands-on with Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform/OpenTofu, and networking.
• Experience with ML/AI workloads and MLOps infrastructure a plus.
• Familiar with COTS/FOSS software management and collaboration with teams.
• Daily fluency with AI tools and LLMs; high validation standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the shared infrastructure and operational platform for engineering workloads.
• Build and operate secure, observable infrastructure for applications, data, ML pipelines.
• Develop core AWS infrastructure and cloud outposts across dev/stage/prod.
• Write and optimize infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and reusable platform patterns.
• Establish SLOs, monitoring, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with Product, Data, and AI teams to align architecture with needs.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate infra development and automation while validating outputs.
• Participate in on-call rotations and balance automation with necessary manual steps.
• Document requirements, design, and operating procedures; mentor engineers.

Skills

SRE experience

Observability

Incident response

Root cause analysis

Automation

AWS

Snowflake

Azure

GCP

Vercel

Docker

GitHub

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform/OpenTofu

Networking

Terragrunt

MLOps

Model serving

COTS/FOSS management

LLMs

AI tools

Collaboration

Regulated environment

Tools

Docker

GitHub

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform/OpenTofu

OpenTofu

Terragrunt

Job description

Formation Bio seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure and delivery systems that power our AI-driven pharma platform. You will manage cloud workloads across AWS and other providers, ensure observability, and drive automation for product, data, and ML workloads.

You will partner with Product Engineering, Data Engineering, and Data Science to design scalable infrastructure, apply AI-assisted tooling, and enforce reliability across development to production