Senior SRE (Search)

Tavily; New York (NY); Remote; USD 147,000 - 224,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Parental leave

Remote work reimbursement

Disability & life insurance

Job summary

Tavily is seeking a Senior DevOps/SRE to own and operate the full infrastructure stack, spanning Kubernetes, CI/CD, and real-time data pipelines. You will design and maintain scalable, reliable systems for high-volume web interactions, working closely with a lean engineering team.

The role emphasizes ownership of the end-to-end infra, multi-region deployments, and observability, with a focus on efficiency and reliability in production environments.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in a DevOps or SRE role in production environments.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale distributed systems with reliability and performance at scale.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment.
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar).
• Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Built or maintained observability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting).
• Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically.

Responsibilities

• Managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions.
• Owning infrastructure as code for all resources.
• Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments.
• Maintaining and optimizing real-time data pipelines processing billions of events per day.
• Building out monitoring, alerting, and observability.
• Debugging production issues across services.
• Managing cloud costs and capacity planning.
• Working closely with a small engineering team—own infra, not a slice of it.

Skills

DevOps experience

SRE

Kubernetes

Observability

Incident response

Multi-region

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

About Tavily

We're building the infrastructure layer for agentic web interaction at scale. Our API is designed from the ground up to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and real-time reasoning in AI systems. By connecting LLMs to high-quality, trustworthy web content, we help developers build agents that are not only intelligent — but also informed.

The Role:

• Managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
• Owning infrastructure as code for all resources
• Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments
• Maintaining and optimize real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors
• Building out monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Debugging production issues across services
• Managing cloud costs and capacity planning
• Working closely with a small engineering team — you'd own infra, not a slice of it

What We're Looking For

• 5-8 years in a DevOps or SRE role, working in production environments
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale
• Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
• Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows
• Built or maintained observability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting)
• Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically

Nice To Have

• Multi-region deployments
• Search infrastructure
• Data pipeline experience (streaming, warehousing)
• Proxy/networking infrastructure at scale

Why Tavily?

• Full ownership — small team, you own the entire infrastructure, not a slice of it
• Real scaling challenges — bursty scraping workloads, cache invalidation, multi-region, millions of daily requests
• AI-native company — your infra directly powers AI agents used by leading companies in the space.

Key Employee Benefits In The US

• Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
• Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
• Disability & life insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage.

Pay Transparency

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, the level at which the candidate is hired, and geographic location, consistent with applicable law.

Base Compensation Range

$147,200—$224,000 USD