Principal Systems Operations Engineer - On-Site AI Infra

Metrosion Inc.; Burlingame (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Metrosion Inc. is seeking a Staff/Principal Systems Operations Engineer in Burlingame, CA to own the production infrastructure for AI software. You will design, provision, and operate cloud services, implement IaC, and build robust CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable deployments.

You will lead incident response, improve runbooks, and collaborate with security for least-privilege access and disaster recovery planning. This is a hands-on, on-site role with strong leadership expectations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in systems operations, SRE, platform engineering, DevOps, or production infrastructure.
• 12+ years at Principal level based on scope and impact.
• Experience at an AI-forward company is required.
• Leadership in architecture, reliability, or operational improvements across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and operate cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, storage, databases, and containerized services for AI products.
• Automate infrastructure as code and configuration management to ensure reproducibility.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines with testing, rollouts, and controlled production access.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and build observability with dashboards and alerts.
• Lead incident investigations, improve runbooks, and drive recovery improvements.
• Implement least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, and patching in collaboration with security.
• Design backup, DR, and failover procedures and exercise them regularly.
• Operate AI workloads with attention to resource limits and external provider failures.
• Plan capacity, investigate performance and cost, and avoid bottlenecks.
• Maintain production docs and access/change evidence for audits.

Skills

Linux systems

Networking

Python

Go

Shell scripting

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Incident response

Security engineering

Cloud platforms

Automation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD systems

Job description

Metrosion Inc. is seeking a Staff/Principal Systems Operations Engineer in Burlingame, CA to own the production infrastructure for AI software. You will design, provision, and operate cloud services, implement IaC, and build robust CI/CD pipelines to enable reliable deployments.

You will lead incident response, improve runbooks, and collaborate with security for least-privilege access and disaster recovery planning. This is a hands-on, on-site role with strong leadership expectations.