Senior SRE — AI-Native Cloud & Infra Leader

Formation Bio; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 186,000 - 232,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Generous perks

Job summary

Formation Bio is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure, delivery systems, and operational practices that enable our engineering teams to ship reliable software quickly. You will work across cloud infrastructure, observability, ML workloads, and production systems in an AI-native environment.

You will partner with Product, Data Engineering, and Data Science to design scalable infrastructure, apply AI-assisted tooling for automation, and maintain robust

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Site Reliability Engineering or similar discipline.
• Production cloud infra experience with strong reliability judgment.
• Diagnostics, incident response, root cause analysis, observability, and automation.
• Experience with AWS and Snowflake; Azure/GCP/Vercel is a plus.
• Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform/OpenTofu; Terragrunt a plus.
• Experience supporting ML/AI workloads and MLOps infrastructure is a plus.
• Strong collaboration across engineering, data science, and security.

Responsibilities

• Own shared infra and platform for compute, runtimes, orchestration, and observability.
• Build and operate secure, reliable infrastructure for product apps and ML workloads.
• Develop core AWS infra and multi-cloud outposts across environments.
• Create and optimize infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable patterns.
• Establish SLOs, monitoring, incident response, and post-incident follow-through.
• Evaluate architecture with product, data engineering, and data science teams.
• Use AI tools to accelerate development and automation while validating output.
• Participate in on-call rotations and balance automation with ClickOps as needed.
• Draft requirements, design docs, and mentor engineers on SRE fundamentals.

Skills

5+ years SRE

AWS

GCP/Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitHub

Observability

CI/CD

Tools

Docker

GitHub

Kubernetes

Python

Terraform/OpenTofu

Terragrunt

AWS

Snowflake

Job description

Formation Bio is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate the infrastructure, delivery systems, and operational practices that enable our engineering teams to ship reliable software quickly. You will work across cloud infrastructure, observability, ML workloads, and production systems in an AI-native environment.

You will partner with Product, Data Engineering, and Data Science to design scalable infrastructure, apply AI-assisted tooling for automation, and maintain robust