Remote SRE: AI Platform Reliability & Automation

Runpod; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work first

Competitive base salary

Stock options equity

Flexible PTO

Medical, dental & vision plans

Job summary

Runpod, a remote-first AI developer cloud, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability, observability, and operations for a distributed platform. You will design SLIs/SLOs, drive incident response, and automate deployments while strengthening production readiness.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams to reduce toil, improve MTTR, and ensure scalable performance in a fast-growing environment. Strong scripting and GPU awareness are valued.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering.
• Strong Linux systems and Networking expertise.
• Experience managing containerized production systems.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes.
• Experience defining and managing SLIs/SLOs.
• Proven incident response and postmortem leadership experience.
• Strong scripting or programming skills.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Background check completed.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement SLIs/SLOs for critical services.
• Lead incident response and coordinate cross-team mitigation efforts.
• Conduct blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are completed.
• Perform production readiness reviews for new services and features.
• Identify systemic risks and drive preventative improvements.
• Partner with engineering to improve system resilience and fault tolerance.
• Contribute to architectural discussions with a reliability-first mindset.

Skills

Linux

Networking

SRE

Incident response

Scripting

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Job description

Runpod, a remote-first AI developer cloud, seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own reliability, observability, and operations for a distributed platform. You will design SLIs/SLOs, drive incident response, and automate deployments while strengthening production readiness.

You’ll work with cross-functional teams to reduce toil, improve MTTR, and ensure scalable performance in a fast-growing environment. Strong scripting and GPU awareness are valued.