Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Golang / Kubernetes)

JobCubby; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Professional development

Conference attendance

Hackathons & tech talks

Company outings

Job summary

Mirantis, the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure leader, seeks an Senior SRE to own reliability for the K0rdent Observability Framework. You will derive meaningful SLIs/SLOs from platform telemetry and expose them via a clean API to Platform Administrators, spanning hybrid, edge, and air-gapped deployments.

You will craft end-to-end reliability definitions, write APIs, and shape alerting and error budgets, collaborating with infra, storage, and networking teams to instrument signals and resolve

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, platform reliability, or a related role.
• Strong software engineering with Go or Python in production APIs/services.
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets for real systems.
• Hands-on with observability tools: metrics, logs, tracing.
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and related signals.

Responsibilities

• Define SLIs and SLOs based on platform signals across Kubernetes, bare-metal, and NVIDIA hardware.
• Design and build API exposing SLIs and reliability state for admins and downstream systems.
• Establish alerting and error-budget practices to maximize signal and minimize noise.
• Partner with infra, storage, and networking teams to instrument and collect signals.
• Diagnose reliability and performance issues across the observability stack and drive resolution.

Skills

Go

Python

SLIs/SLOs

Observability tooling

Kubernetes metrics

APIs

Tools

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Cluster API

Job description

Company Description

Mirantis, an IREN company, is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy. https://www.mirantis.com/

Job Description

Define what reliability means for a GPU-accelerated AI platform and make it measurable. You will own the service-level indicators and objectives for the K0rdent Observability Framework (KOF) — deriving meaningful SLIs from the signals the platform already emits, and exposing them to Platform Administrators through a clean API. Work spans hybrid, edge, and air-gapped deployments built on the Mirantis K0rdent stack.

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior SRE who thinks past dashboards to the contract between a platform and its operators. The right candidate can look at raw telemetry from Kubernetes, bare metal, and NVIDIA infrastructure, decide which signals actually predict user-visible reliability, and turn them into SLIs and SLOs that operators can act on. You are equally comfortable writing the service that exposes those SLIs through an API and reasoning about error budgets, alerting quality, and signal-to-noise. You should be self-directed, able to own reliability definitions end to end, and effectively communicate them across teams.

Responsibilities

• Define SLIs and SLOs based on the signals available across the platform — Kubernetes, bare-metal hosts, and NVIDIA infrastructure (BMC, InfiniBand, NVLink, UFM).
• Design and build the API that exposes SLIs and reliability state to Platform Administrators and downstream systems.
• Establish alerting and error-budget practices that maximize signal and minimize noise.
• Partner with infrastructure, storage, and networking teams to ensure the right signals are instrumented and collected.
• Diagnose reliability and performance issues across the observability stack and drive their resolution.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, platform reliability, or a closely related software/infrastructure role.
• Strong software engineering skills (e.g., Go or Python) with experience building and operating APIs or services in production.
• Demonstrated experience defining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets for real production systems.
• Hands‑on experience with observability tooling — metrics, logging, and tracing (e.g., Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Grafana).
• Solid understanding of Kubernetes and the signals it and its workloads emit.
• Strong written and verbal communication with technical audiences.

Preferred

• Experience instrumenting or monitoring bare‑metal and NVIDIA infrastructure (BMC/Redfish, InfiniBand, NVLink, UFM).
• Experience with the Mirantis K0rdent stack (K0rdent Enterprise, K0rdent AI, KOF) and Cluster API.
• Familiarity with VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaLogs at scale.
• Proven experience in sovereign or high-security air‑gapped environments.

Additional Information

What does Mirantis offer you?

• Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry;
• Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies;
• Be a part of cutting‑edge, open‑source innovation;
• Thrive in the high‑energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk‑taking, and continuous growth are valued;
• Professional development and training;
• Attend conferences and working groups;
• Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks;
• Receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.

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