Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & Automation

Core Scientific; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Core Scientific, headquartered in Austin, TX, seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability of hybrid cloud and on-prem systems. You will lead end-to-end initiatives, implement secure, immutable infrastructure, and elevate observability and incident response practices across teams.

The role requires 7+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong IaC experience, and comfort with regulated environments. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with architecture to drive scalable, dependable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Broad technical experience across infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience operating in regulated, compliant, or change-controlled environments.
• Experience working in hybrid environments (AWS preferred; on-premises infrastructure required).
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and orchestration tools (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Ansible).
• Experience with Kubernetes and virtualization technologies.
• Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog), including building monitoring and alerting integrations.
• Experience with build and release systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Makefiles, Python tooling).

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technical initiatives from problem definition to rollout and operation.
• Own the design, implementation, and reliability of systems across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.
• Take accountability for reliability, scalability, and performance in regulated environments.
• Coordinate work across engineers and teams, delegating while remaining hands-on when needed.
• Partner with application architecture to shape system design and influence technical decisions.
• Build, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications using automation and infrastructure as code.
• Implement secure, immutable infrastructure using modern tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible).
• Improve observability, monitoring, and incident response practices.
• Establish and promote best practices for reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Mentor engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization.
• Foster open, respectful communication within the team and with leaders across the organization.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Site Reliability

DevOps

Infrastructure Engineering

Distributed Systems

On-call

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

Ansible

Kustomize

Datadog

GitHub Actions

Makefiles

Python tooling

Job description

Core Scientific, headquartered in Austin, TX, seeks a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability of hybrid cloud and on-prem systems. You will lead end-to-end initiatives, implement secure, immutable infrastructure, and elevate observability and incident response practices across teams.

The role requires 7+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong IaC experience, and comfort with regulated environments. You will mentor engineers and collaborate with architecture to drive scalable, dependable