SRE – Distributed Systems (Mandarin Required)

Applied Intelligence Consulting (Singapore); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Intelligence Consulting (Singapore) is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer – Distributed Systems in Palo Alto, CA. The role focuses on designing multi-region infrastructure, HA/DR, and global production reliability for a massive consumer platform.

You will work across incident response, capacity planning, and observability in a globally distributed environment, with Mandarin and English communication essential.

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of SRE or related experience.
• Experience with large-scale internet production systems.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with multi-region/global infrastructure, HA/DR.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-region infrastructure architecture.
• Build HA and DR capabilities and automated failover.
• Develop and improve global traffic routing and scheduling.
• Drive incident response and postmortems for large-scale systems.
• Improve release, deployment, and configuration management.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

Distributed systems

Incident management

Capacity planning

Automation tooling

Go/Python/Java

Tools

MySQL

Redis

Kafka

Kubernetes

Service Mesh

Cloud-native infra

DNS / Global Load Balancing

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer – Distributed Systems (Mandarin Required)

Location:

• Palo Alto, California

Experience

• 3–7 years

Language Requirement

• Fluent Mandarin Chinese and professional English are mandatory.
• Candidates must be able to conduct technical discussions and collaborate effectively in Mandarin with engineering and infrastructure teams in China, while also operating professionally in English.

About The Role

Our client is a rapidly scaling global consumer internet platform serving hundreds of millions of users worldwide. We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong experience in supporting and engineering large-scale, highly available distributed systems. This is not a traditional IT operations or infrastructure support position. You will work on the reliability architecture behind a massive consumer platform, solving engineering challenges across multi-region systems, global traffic, high availability, disaster recovery, fault isolation, capacity, and large-scale incident response. As the platform expands internationally, you will help build the infrastructure and reliability capabilities required to operate critical services consistently across global regions.

What You\'ll Work On

• Design and improve multi-region infrastructure architecture
• Build High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) capabilities
• Design automated failover and fault-isolation mechanisms
• Build and operate infrastructure supporting international production environments
• Develop and improve global traffic routing and scheduling
• Improve release, deployment, configuration management, and service-governance systems
• Build reliability frameworks across Metrics, Logging, and Distributed Tracing
• Drive incident response, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and postmortems
• Solve complex production issues across large-scale distributed systems
• Improve capacity planning, scalability, and system resilience
• Optimize network and data architecture for global deployment
• Build automation and reliability tooling to reduce operational overhead

The role specifically covers deployment, monitoring, configuration, service governance, and traffic scheduling alongside reliability engineering and incident response.

What We\'re Looking For

• 3–7 years of professional experience in SRE, Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Experience supporting large-scale internet or consumer-facing production systems
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and high-availability architecture
• Hands-on experience with:
• High Availability / fault tolerance
• Incident management
• Capacity planning and scaling
• Production troubleshooting
• Disaster Recovery and failover
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
• Experience with infrastructure technologies such as MySQL, Redis, and Kafka
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Service Mesh, and cloud-native infrastructure
• Experience with observability across Metrics, Logging, and Distributed Tracing
• Programming ability in at least one of Go, Python, or Java
• Experience building automation tooling, reliability platforms, or infrastructure systems

Multi-Region / Global Infrastructure Experience

• Experience designing or operating cross-region distributed systems is particularly valuable, including:
• Multi-region deployment
• Global traffic routing and scheduling
• Data replication and synchronization
• Disaster Recovery
• Automated failover
• Fault isolation
• Global / international infrastructure

Particularly Relevant Backgrounds

We are especially interested in engineers who have worked on reliability and infrastructure for high-traffic consumer internet products in areas such as:

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Production Engineering
• Large-scale Distributed Systems
• Global Infrastructure
• Traffic Infrastructure
• Platform Engineering
• High Availability / Disaster Recovery
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Reliability Platforms
• Infrastructure Automation

Experience from environments involving large user populations, significant traffic volumes, and business-critical online services is particularly relevant.

Nice To Have

• Experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or other multi-cloud environments
• Familiarity with global traffic technologies such as DNS, GSLB, Anycast, or Global Load Balancing
• Experience with Chaos Engineering
• Participation in failure drills / Game Days
• Experience with automated recovery systems
• Experience operating infrastructure across multiple countries or regions

Why This Role

You will have direct exposure to the infrastructure supporting a consumer platform with hundreds of millions of users, solving real-world distributed systems and reliability challenges at significant scale. The role provides the opportunity to work deeply across global architecture, multi-region systems, HA/DR, traffic infrastructure, and production reliability, while helping build international infrastructure from the ground up.