Senior SRE: AI Infra, On-Call, Kubernetes & Ceph

Engg; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Engg, a San Francisco–based AI infrastructure company, seeks a senior on-call SRE to own incident response for Kubernetes, Ceph storage, and bare metal servers. You will coordinate with enterprise clients during outages, drive resolution timelines, and contribute to runbooks and automation.

You will lead cross-team investigations, manage etcd backups/restores, and help reduce incident frequency through reliability improvements and IaC tooling.

Qualifications

• :years of production Kubernetes experience in enterprise environments.
• Experience with distributed storage Ceph or equivalents.
• Experience with at least one CNI plugin (Cilium/Calico).
• Strong Linux admin and bare metal background.
• Experience managing etcd backups/restores.

Responsibilities

• Respond to and resolve production incidents across client infrastructure (Kubernetes, Ceph, bare metal).
• Troubleshoot complex distributed systems issues during live outages.
• Handle escalations requiring deep etcd, Ceph RGW, Cilium, and load balancer expertise.
• Communicate incident status and timelines to enterprise clients.
• Participate in follow-the-sun on-call rotation across time zones.
• Document incidents and improve runbooks based on patterns.
• Collaborate with infra on reliability and automation improvements.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Distributed systems troubleshooting

On-call incident response

Linux administration

Client communication

Tools

Ceph

etcd

Cilium

NVIDIA Kubernetes Operator

Kubespray

Ansible

Job description

Engg, a San Francisco–based AI infrastructure company, seeks a senior on-call SRE to own incident response for Kubernetes, Ceph storage, and bare metal servers. You will coordinate with enterprise clients during outages, drive resolution timelines, and contribute to runbooks and automation.

You will lead cross-team investigations, manage etcd backups/restores, and help reduce incident frequency through reliability improvements and IaC tooling.