SRE — AI Platform Infra & Observability

Runloop; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Daily catered lunch

Equity & competitive salary

Job summary

Runloop is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, observability, performance, and security of our code sandbox platform. You will work with the engineering team to build and maintain distributed systems ensuring a seamless developer experience.

The role requires strong CS fundamentals, 5+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in SRE/DevOps, and expertise in Python/Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud tooling. Hybrid onsite in San Francisco with on-call responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Strong CS fundamentals backed by a degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of software engineering with 3+ years in site reliability, DevOps, or infra ops.
• Proficient in Python or Go.
• Expertise with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Terraform and/or Pulumi.
• Familiarity with monitoring/alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and Linux systems administration.
• Experience designing, scaling, and maintaining distributed systems.
• Ability to implement observability and balance reliability with developer velocity.
• Hands-on incident management and blameless post-mortems.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain production infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Monitor alerts and incidents to ensure high availability and security.
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure scalable, reliable features.
• Troubleshoot complex infra issues across networks and sandbox environments.
• Participate in on-call rotation for production support.
• Define SLIs/SLOs and manage error budgets.
• Automate deployments, scaling, provisioning, and recovery tasks.
• Lead incident response and conduct root-cause analyses.
• Mentor engineers and influence reliability practices across teams.
• Plan for capacity growth and safe release/change management.

Skills

Strong problem solving

System design

Leadership

Mentoring engineers

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

Python

Go

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

Linux

Networking

Security

Job description

Runloop is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, observability, performance, and security of our code sandbox platform. You will work with the engineering team to build and maintain distributed systems ensuring a seamless developer experience.

The role requires strong CS fundamentals, 5+ years in software engineering with 3+ years in SRE/DevOps, and expertise in Python/Go, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud tooling. Hybrid onsite in San Francisco with on-call responsibilities.