Senior SRE - Compute Nodes (Linux & Virtualization)

Nebius; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Nebius is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Compute Node team. The role focuses on Linux systems engineering, virtualization, and operational reliability across multi-region compute nodes that run and manage VMs.

You will work close to the OS and hypervisor, shaping reliability and observability from the ground up while leading incident response and postmortems to improve long-term system health.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux user and kernel space knowledge.
• Experience with virtualization tech in production.
• Experience designing observability stacks and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Ensure reliability, availability and performance of compute nodes running VMs
• Analyze and debug Linux systems across user space and kernel space
• Troubleshoot complex production issues involving CPU, memory, NUMA, cgroups and scheduling
• Work hands-on with virtualization and containerization using QEMU/KVM and Linux-native tech
• Design and evolve observability as a core capability of the node layer: metrics, logs, traces, alerts, SLIs and SLOs
• Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems to drive reliability improvements
• Collaborate with platform, kernel/hypervisor, GPU and infrastructure teams to improve system design and operability

Skills

Linux expertise

Virtualization

Containerization

Debugging skills

SRE mindset

Tools

QEMU/KVM

Job description

Nebius is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Compute Node team. The role focuses on Linux systems engineering, virtualization, and operational reliability across multi-region compute nodes that run and manage VMs.

You will work close to the OS and hypervisor, shaping reliability and observability from the ground up while leading incident response and postmortems to improve long-term system health.