Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Applied Machine Learning)

Location: Bellevue, Washington, United States; Seattle is also listed under conditions. Full-time, onsite role, 40 hours per week.

Base salary: $206,086–$341,734 annually, with potential additional bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Company

A technology joint venture focused on data privacy, cybersecurity, national security, and protecting U.S. user data and applications.

What you will do

• Design and architect large-scale distributed machine learning, recommendation, and LLM inference systems.
• Make performance, cost, and maintainability decisions for ML platform components and workloads.
• Build sophisticated MLOps automation and multi-stage CI/CD pipelines for ML and LLM model deployment.
• Perform root cause analysis for distributed system failures and develop fault-tolerant, self-healing components.
• Provide user support, respond to incidents, conduct postmortems, and participate in technical operations rotations.
• Mentor junior site reliability engineers and interns.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field plus 3 years of related experience; or bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent plus 5 years of progressive post-bachelor’s experience.
• At least 3 years of experience provisioning servers with Linux operating systems.
• At least 3 years of experience managing system resources and deployments with configuration management tools.
• At least 3 years of experience building tools with programming and scripting languages.
• At least 3 years of experience processing large volumes of logs and data, creating reports, dashboards, and alerts with analytical and search-processing tools.
• At least 3 years of experience deploying and managing applications with containerized tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive workplace with reasonable accommodations available during recruitment.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from the first day of employment.
• 401(k) savings plan with company match, life insurance, disability coverage, and wellbeing benefits.
• Paid parental leave, 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of paid personal time.