Role Site Reliability Engineer Department FullTime San Francisco or New York City

Latent, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

A cutting-edge AI healthcare company in San Francisco is looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to own their production environment. The role involves designing scalable systems, managing deployment pipelines, and utilizing tools like Kubernetes and Terraform. Ideal candidates will thrive in a high-energy, in-office culture and have a salary range of $165,000 - $250,000.

Qualifications

• Deep experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.
• Proven ability to architect and maintain complex, distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience optimizing deployment pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain the production environment.
• Own our containerized infrastructure using Kubernetes and Helm.
• Optimize TypeScript and Python/ML deployment pipelines.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform

Deployment Optimization

CI/CD

Problem Solving

Tools

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

Job description

SRE

Location: San Francisco, CA (5 Days In-Office)

You are the infrastructure expert who enables our rapid product development and guarantees 99.9%+ stability and performance of our clinical AI platform for major health systems. Your focus on operational excellence is directly tied to a patient's access to life-saving treatment.

What We Look for in a Great Engineer

You have the intensity and technical mastery to own mission-critical infrastructure. You hold yourself and others to high standards and thrive in a high-energy, in-office culture where everyone is in it to win it.

• Tool Proficiency: You are highly proficient with your tools—you speak command line fluently and have mastered keyboard shortcuts.

• Ownership: You thrive on owning complex systems and have a proven track record of scaling mission-critical deployments.

• Automation Drive: You love automating things, always finding new ways to increase your own leverage, and defining standards for operational excellence.

• Problem Solver: You won't wait for someone else to solve a problem that you're in a position to solve; you are willing to jump into whatever needs to get done.

What You’ll Work On (Responsibilities)

As our SRE, you will own the entire production environment and improve the development experience:

• Infrastructure Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain the production environment, having previously handled 500+ machine deployments.

• Kubernetes Mastery: Own our containerized infrastructure, leveraging deep expertise in Kubernetes and Helm to manage deployment, scaling, and operational health.

• CI/CD & Deployment Optimization: Optimize and streamline both the TypeScript and Python/ML deployment pipelines to support high-velocity feature release while maintaining the highest reliability.

• DevX Support: Support Developer Experience (DevX) work to streamline developer workflows, enhance tool proficiency, and improve CI/CD systems.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage and maintain infrastructure definitions using Terraform.

Technical Qualifications & Environment

• IaC & Orchestration: Deep, demonstrable experience with Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform.

• Scaling Systems: Proven ability to architect and maintain complex, distributed systems with high-availability requirements.

• Deployment Experience: Hands-on experience optimizing deployment pipelines for both application code (TypeScript) and machine learning models (Python/ML). Also PostgreSQL, Redis, Kakfa.

• Core Team Member: Excitement about working five days per week in our San Francisco office.

Pay Scale $165,000-250,000