Remote SRE & Incident Response Engineer (Contract)

Patronus AI; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Patronus AI is seeking an experienced engineer to work remotely on production-style reliability scenarios with our research team. You will read dashboards, write PromQL/LogQL, fix Helm/Kubernetes configurations, and document your approach after each session.

You will contribute to scenario assessment, help define acceptance criteria, and provide post-session notes detailing what you verified and why. A background in infra, monitoring or incident response is preferred, with strong English

Qualifications

• 3+ years running production systems in at least one of the areas above, including on-call rotations in the last two years.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Prometheus and Grafana (or Datadog/New Relic), a log stack such as Loki/ELK/Splunk, IaC such as Terraform and Helm, and a CI/CD system.
• Comfortable in Python, Go or Bash and reading unfamiliar codebases.
• Able to explain your reasoning out loud while you work in clear professional English.

Responsibilities

• Work live with a researcher on incident, debugging and infrastructure-change scenarios, reading dashboards/logs and fixing config and deployments.
• Explain your reasoning as you work, including fixes considered and rejected.
• Review scenarios for realism and define acceptance criteria for scenarios and post-mortems.
• Write short notes after each session detailing approach and verification.

Skills

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Go

Bash

Tools

Loki

ELK

Splunk

Terraform

Helm

CI/CD

Job description

Patronus AI is seeking an experienced engineer to work remotely on production-style reliability scenarios with our research team. You will read dashboards, write PromQL/LogQL, fix Helm/Kubernetes configurations, and document your approach after each session.

You will contribute to scenario assessment, help define acceptance criteria, and provide post-session notes detailing what you verified and why. A background in infra, monitoring or incident response is preferred, with strong English