Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Kubernetes & Cloud

Latitude AI; United States; On-site; USD 179,200 - 268,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation packages

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Health savings account with employer-m

Employer-matched 401(k)

Paid parental leave

Unlimited vacation

15 paid holidays

Daily lunches and snacks

Job summary

Latitude AI is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to build and run mission-critical systems for a Ford autonomy platform. You will implement monitoring, alerting, and automation to ensure health, reliability, and performance across the stack, collaborating with ingest, mapping, ML, and deployment teams.

Responsibilities include designing platform components, implementing Kubernetes controllers, and maintaining a high-availability production environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field and 4+ years of relevant experience (or Master's/PhD with less experience).
• Fundamental understanding of Linux OS internals, TCP/IP networking, and storage subsystems.
• Hands-on development in Go or Python for production-ready software.
• Experience scaling and securing services in AWS or GCP or cloud-native environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code to automate resource creation (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience authoring Kubernetes controllers in Go and running Kubernetes in production.
• Experience with metrics (Prometheus), logging (Elasticsearch, Loki) and tracing (Jaeger, Tempo).
• Ability to guide teams to scale services within budget and define SLOs.
• Strong communication skills in a diverse, distributed team.

Responsibilities

• Build monitoring to keep the platform healthy and its reliability measurable.
• Create alerting and runbooks to speed up detection and remediation.
• Debug complex multi-component issues and implement robust fixes.
• Participate in on-call rotation and blameless postmortems for continuous improvement.
• Design platform components enabling customers to work more easily and efficiently.
• Develop Kubernetes controllers to automate operations.

Skills

Go or Python

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Terraform/CloudFormation

Monitoring/Observability

SRE on-call culture

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, CS, EE, Robotics or related field

Master's degree (advantage)

PhD (advantage)

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Elasticsearch

Prometheus

Jaeger/Tempo

Job description

Latitude AI is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to build and run mission-critical systems for a Ford autonomy platform. You will implement monitoring, alerting, and automation to ensure health, reliability, and performance across the stack, collaborating with ingest, mapping, ML, and deployment teams.

Responsibilities include designing platform components, implementing Kubernetes controllers, and maintaining a high-availability production environment.