Senior AI-Driven SRE for Scalable Cloud Infra (Remote)

Attain; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Attain is seeking a Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and scale production-grade infrastructure powering consumer fintech platforms. You’ll automate toil, apply AI agents to infrastructure tasks, and collaborate across backend, frontend, data science, and product teams to ensure reliability, privacy, and performance at scale.

Hybrid office model with options for remote work for the right candidate, strong emphasis on observability and developer experience, and building

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience building and maintaining large-scale cloud-native infrastructure.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Istio or a similar service mesh.
• Experience with SQL databases such as MySQL, Google BigQuery, and Google Spanner.
• Experience with streaming technologies like Kafka and Kinesis.
• Experience with pub/sub technologies such as AWS SNS and Google Pub/Sub.
• Experience with serverless computing such as AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions/Run.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Strong CS and software engineering fundamentals; knowledge of SOC2/PCI compliance.

Responsibilities

• Automate manual toil by building and maintaining infrastructure tooling.
• Leverage AI agents to design, test, and ship infrastructure code.
• Contribute to architecture, capacity planning, and reliability initiatives.
• Develop Helm charts for deploying services in Kubernetes; define metrics and policies.
• Maintain observability with Prometheus, Grafana, and logging/monitoring pipelines.

Skills

Automation mindset

AI fluency

Cloud platform literacy

Observability

Developer experience

Willingness to learn

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Istio

Prometheus

Grafana

BigQuery

Spanner

CloudSQL

Terraform

Datadog

Kafka

Kinesis

Pub/Sub

Cloud Functions/Run

Helm

Job description

Attain is seeking a Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and scale production-grade infrastructure powering consumer fintech platforms. You’ll automate toil, apply AI agents to infrastructure tasks, and collaborate across backend, frontend, data science, and product teams to ensure reliability, privacy, and performance at scale.

Hybrid office model with options for remote work for the right candidate, strong emphasis on observability and developer experience, and building