Senior Staff SRE: Scale AI-Driven Systems & Reliability

Wand AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Wand AI in Palo Alto is hiring a highly experienced Senior Staff SRE Engineer to act as a senior technical authority within our reliability function. This hands-on IC role designs scalable infrastructure, drives reliability, and ensures AI-powered products operate with high availability, performance, and security.

You will collaborate with platform, product, data, and ML teams to productionise models, strengthen Kubernetes-based architecture, and mature CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, shaping the

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on SRE or production engineering experience.
• Experience scaling SRE practices in high-growth or complex settings.
• Deep AWS or Azure cloud expertise and Kubernetes production hardening.
• Advanced IaC experience and end-to-end CI/CD design.
• Strong observability tooling and multi-tenant environment support.
• Experience with ML workloads and model deployment/monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate scalable, secure production environments (AWS preferred).
• Lead reliability improvements across multiple engineering streams.
• Design and evolve Kubernetes infrastructure and migrations.
• Enforce Infrastructure-as-Code standards.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets; monitor reliability.
• Improve observability across apps, infra, data, and ML systems.
• Integrate model analytics and telemetry into reliability insights.
• Optimise CI/CD from build to deploy to rollback.
• Improve release safety and deployment frequency.
• Lead incident response and postmortems for complex failures.
• Reduce toil through platform engineering and automation.
• Absorb and standardise customer environments; support ML workloads.

Skills

SRE practices

Problem solving

Cross-functional collaboration

Strong communication

Tools

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Observability

MLOps

Job description

Wand AI in Palo Alto is hiring a highly experienced Senior Staff SRE Engineer to act as a senior technical authority within our reliability function. This hands-on IC role designs scalable infrastructure, drives reliability, and ensures AI-powered products operate with high availability, performance, and security.

You will collaborate with platform, product, data, and ML teams to productionise models, strengthen Kubernetes-based architecture, and mature CI/CD pipelines end-to-end, shaping the