Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Kubernetes & AI-Driven Ops

Fal; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance to San Francisco

Visa sponsorship

Competitive salary and equity

Health, dental, and vision insurance (

Job summary

fal is seeking a Software Engineer, Site Reliability in San Francisco. You will keep production infrastructure running at scale, owning the reliability of customer-facing systems—from Kubernetes clusters to deployment pipelines and the networking layer that connects it all.

You think in SLOs, automate ruthlessly, and treat every incident as a chance to improve the system. This is a full-time, onsite role with potential remote flexibility for senior levels.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience managing production systems and software development workflows.
• Strong production experience setting up and operating Kubernetes at scale using IaC tools.
• Deep knowledge of Linux networking, container networking, DNS.
• Experience building CI/CD systems and GitOps workflows (FluxCD, ArgoCD).
• Proficiency in Python and Go or Bash for tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate our Kubernetes infrastructure: cluster lifecycle, upgrades, networking, and multi-tenant isolation for customer workloads.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment infrastructure.
• Leverage AI to automate analysis and resolution of production issues, improving speed, reliability and maintainability.
• Build dashboards, alerting, and anomaly detection across systems.
• Define and enforce SLOs and build incident response processes.
• Manage and improve networking, load balancing, and service mesh configurations.
• Drive reliability improvements across the stack through automation, runbooks, and chaos engineering.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python

Go

Bash

Linux networking

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Datadog

Tools

FluxCD

ArgoCD

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

fal is seeking a Software Engineer, Site Reliability in San Francisco. You will keep production infrastructure running at scale, owning the reliability of customer-facing systems—from Kubernetes clusters to deployment pipelines and the networking layer that connects it all.

You think in SLOs, automate ruthlessly, and treat every incident as a chance to improve the system. This is a full-time, onsite role with potential remote flexibility for senior levels.