Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Agentic Search)

Tavily; United States; Remote; USD 147,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Remote work stipend

Disability & life insurance

Job summary

Tavily is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own and scale our infra. You’ll manage Kubernetes across regions, lead IaC, and drive CI/CD with GitOps in a fast-paced environment.

You’ll build observability stacks, optimize real-time data pipelines, and work with a small team to ensure reliability, performance, and cost efficiency across services in production.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years in a DevOps or SRE role in production environments
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
• Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows
• Built or maintained observability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting)
• Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically

Responsibilities

• Managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
• Owning infrastructure as code for all resources
• Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments
• Maintaining and optimizing real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day
• Building out monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Debugging production issues across services
• Managing cloud costs and capacity planning
• Working closely with a small engineering team — you’re on infra, not a slice of it

Skills

DevOps/SRE experience

Kubernetes

Observability

Performance at scale

API design

Incident management

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

GitOps

Job description

AboutTavily

We’rebuilding the infrastructure layer for agentic web interaction at scale. Our API is designed from the ground up to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and real-time reasoning in AI systems. By connecting LLMs to high-quality, trustworthy web content, we help developers build agents that are not only intelligent — but also informed.

We work with some of the most innovative teams in AI — from small startups shaping the ecosystem to the largest enterprises deploying AI at scale. Whetherit’spowering sales assistants, research copilots, or internal knowledge tools,we’rethe missing link between LLMs and the real world.

The Role: SeniorSite ReliabilityEngineer

• Managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions

• Owning infrastructure as code for all resources

• Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines andGitOps-based deployments

• Maintaining andoptimizereal-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors

• Building out monitoring, alerting, and observability

• Debugging production issues across services

• Managing cloud costs and capacity planning

• Working closely with a small engineering team —you’down infra, not a slice of it

Whatwe’relooking for

• 5-8years in a DevOpsor SRErole, working in production environments

• Proven experience designing andoperatinglarge-scale, distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale

• Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment

• Proficiencywith infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)

• Experience withGitOps-based deployment workflows

• Built ormaintainedobservability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting)

• Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically

Nice to have:

• Multi-region deployments

• Search infrastructure

• Data pipeline experience (streaming, warehousing)

• Proxy/networking infrastructure at scale

WhyTavily?

• Full ownership — small team, you own the entire infrastructure, not a slice of it

• Real scaling challenges — bursty scraping workloads, cache invalidation, multi-region, millions of daily requests

• AI-native company — your infra directly powers AI agents used by leading companies in the space.

Key employee benefits in the US:

• Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.

• **401(k) plan:**Up to 4% company match withimmediate vesting.

• Parental leave: 20 weekspaid for primary caregivers,12 weeksfor secondary caregivers.

• Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.

• Disability & life insurance : Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage.

Pay Transparency

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, the level at which the candidate is hired, and geographic location, consistent with applicable law.

Base Compensation Range

$147,200—$224,000 USD