Grupo QuintoAndar | Senior Site Reliability Engineer - AI Platform

QuintoAndar; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Profit sharing

Health, dental, and life insurance

Childcare subsidies and parental leave

Wellness and assistance programs

Education and lifestyle discounts

Job summary

QuintoAndar is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design and build a foundational AI and hyper-automation platform from the ground up. This early-stage, strategic role focuses on architectures, guardrails, and cost management so teams across the company can automate securely and at scale.

You will architect systems, implement IaC with Kubernetes, vault, and API ingress, enforce CI/CD practices, and guide high-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in SRE or software engineering.
• Experience with IaC and platform tools (Kubernetes, containers, Vault, API ingress).
• Proven track record building software and systems from scratch.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD and distributed systems fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of database modeling and evolution.
• Proficiency in Portuguese and English.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build underlying systems enabling AI and hyper-automation adoption.
• Establish guardrails, cost controls, and protection for automation use cases.
• Operate and evolve IaC, Kubernetes, containers, Vault, and API ingress.
• Apply software engineering practices: version control, testing, deployment automation, code reviews, design docs.
• Tackle high-scale performance and distributed-systems challenges; influence DB design decisions.
• Work in agile frameworks and collaborate with cross-functional technical leaders.

Skills

Site Reliability

Software Engineer

CI/CD

Distributed systems

English

Portuguese

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Vault

API ingress

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Role overview

A senior site reliability engineering role dedicated to building a foundational AI and hyper-automation platform from the ground up. The position is highly strategic and early-stage, involving the design of new architectures, establishment of guardrails, and management of platform costs so that teams across the organization can build automations autonomously, securely, and at scale.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the underlying systems that enable sustainable adoption of AI and hyper-automation.
• Establish technical guardrails, cost controls, and protection mechanisms for automation and AI use cases.
• Operate and evolve Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, containers, Vault, and API ingress layers.
• Apply deep software engineering practices including version control, testing, deployment automation, code review, and design documentation.
• Tackle high-scale performance and distributed-systems challenges and contribute to database design decisions.
• Work within agile frameworks such as Kanban or Scrum and collaborate with cross-functional technical leaders.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or Software Engineer.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure as Code and platform tools including Kubernetes, containers, Vault, and API ingress.
• Proven track record of building software and systems architecture completely from scratch.
• Strong knowledge of modern CI/CD processes and distributed-systems fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of database modeling, structuring, and evolution.
• Professional proficiency in both Portuguese and English.

Nice to have

• Genuine interest or practical experience in applied AI, including models, tokens, costs, and observability.
• Prior experience with no-code or low-code platforms such as Zapier, Base44, Botpress, or Botcity.
• Background mentoring, technically leading, or influencing other SREs.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote-first model with optional use of an office or partner coworking space up to twice a week.
• Competitive salary and profit sharing.
• Health, dental, and life insurance.
• Childcare and atypical-parenthood subsidies, extended parental leave, and home office allowance.
• Wellhub access and an employee assistance program covering mental health, social, legal, and financial topics.
• Days off on birthday, Mother's Day, and Father's Day, plus educational and lifestyle discounts.