SRE: AI Model Providers & Uptime

present of AI; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenRouter seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for Provider Operations to keep a broad set of AI model providers healthy and traffic flowing. You will design observability, build tooling in TypeScript or Python, and lead incident response with provider partners to minimize outages.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, strong monitoring, and the ability to test and validate provider APIs to ensure performance and reliability across streaming, calls and cache interactions.

Qualifications

• Solid reliability engineering experience.
• Strong monitoring and alerting skills.
• Ability to write tooling in TypeScript or Python.
• Calm under outages and clear collaboration with provider teams.

Skills

Observability

SLO design

Incident response

TypeScript tooling

Python tooling

Tools

TypeScript

Python

Job description

OpenRouter seeks a Site Reliability Engineer for Provider Operations to keep a broad set of AI model providers healthy and traffic flowing. You will design observability, build tooling in TypeScript or Python, and lead incident response with provider partners to minimize outages.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration, strong monitoring, and the ability to test and validate provider APIs to ensure performance and reliability across streaming, calls and cache interactions.