Staff Software Engineer - Reliability

Luma AI; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Luma AI is seeking a Senior Reliability Engineer (SRE) to oversee and enhance its extensive GPU infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and reliability across multiple clusters. The role will involve collaboration with various teams, effective monitoring, and designing scalable solutions. The successful candidate will have proven experience in a fast-paced environment, with a strong focus on problem-solving and communication skills, along with a competitive salary and equity benefits.

Benefits

Equity packages in the form of stock options

Comprehensive benefits plan

Qualifications

• 10+ years as a reliability engineer or similar role.
• Strong proficiency in GPU cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with containerization technologies.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with teams on availability and performance requirements.
• Design solutions for scalability and monitor GPU clusters.
• Implement fault-tolerant designs and automation tools.

Skills

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

DataDog

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

Job description

The SRE role at Luma AI sits with the Infrastructure and Research teams and is responsible for our GPU clusters. Luma runs on '000s of H100 GPUs across multiple providers and clusters for Training, Data Processing and Inference. We need a highly skilled SRE to ensure those clusters are healthy and to build the monitoring and management tools we need to make full use of them. Successful candidates will want to get extremely in the weeds solving performance and maintenance problems in our clusters.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with researchers and engineers to specify the availability, performance, correctness, and efficiency requirements of the current and future versions of our GPU infrastructure.
• Work with multiple GPU cloud providers to scale up, scale down, maintain and monitor our 000's GPUs in many clusters.
• Design and implement solutions to ensure the scalability of our infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demands.
• Implement and manage monitoring systems to proactively identify issues and anomalies in our production environment.
• Implement fault-tolerant and resilient design patterns to minimize service disruptions.
• Build and maintain automation tools to streamline repetitive tasks and improve system reliability.
• Participate in an on-call rotation to respond to critical incidents and ensure 24/7 system availability alongside other infrastructure developers.
• Develop and maintain service level objectives (SLOs) and service level indicators (SLIs) to measure and ensure system reliability.

Experience

• Proven work experience 10+ yrs as an reliability engineer, production engineer, infrastructure software engineer or a similar role in a fast-paced, rapidly scaling company.
• Strong proficiency in GPU cloud infrastructure, including the underlying concepts of scheduling, scaling, cloud storage, networking and security.
• Proficiency in programming/scripting languages.
• Experience with containerization technologies and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or equivalent.
• Knowledge of IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation or equivalent.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with observability tools; examples include DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and ELK stack or similar.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
• Good to have experience as an SRE within the AI/ML space is strongly preferred.

Compensation

• The pay range for this position in California is $200,000 - $250,000yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, candidate location, and experience. We also offer competitive equity packages in the form of stock options and a comprehensive benefits plan.

$200,000 - $250,000 a year

In addition to cash base pay, you'll also receive a sizable grant of Luma's equity.

The pay range for this position is $200000- 250000/yr for Bay Area. Base pay offered will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, candidate location, and experience.

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