Senior SRE - Search Infra & Real-Time Data Pipelines

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

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.