Senior Automation & Platform Reliability Engineer

Alembic

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Alembic in San Francisco is seeking a Senior Automation and Tools Engineer to scale our platform with reliability, observability, and operational excellence. You will partner with engineers and data scientists to automate and maintain data pipelines, ML workloads and real-time analytics systems.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role with visibility across the stack and the opportunity to shape the future of our infrastructure and operations.

Qualifications

5+ years in Tools, SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering roles.
Strong programming in Python or Go.
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
Proficient in IaC: Ansible, Helm, Kustomize.
Skilled in monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog.
CI/CD expertise with GitHub Actions and ArgoCD.
Security, compliance, and incident response experience.
Excellent cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

Automate and control datacenter and cloud infrastructure, focusing on build and deployment systems.
Improve reliability via automation, observability, capacity planning.
Create and configure provisioning, configuration, observability tools.
Improve developer experience with self-service tooling.
Implement monitoring, alerting, incident response (SLOs, runbooks, on-call).
Collaborate with data science teams to drive performance culture.
Ensure security and operational readiness across infra.
Lead post-incident analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.