Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Bare Metal Linux)

Location: United States — 100% Remote

Total compensation: up to $350k OTE, including base and variable compensation, depending on experience.

Company

Building a cloud platform for high-throughput, compute-heavy workloads on large-scale bare-metal infrastructure.

What you will do

• Own production reliability end to end by defining SLIs and SLOs and leading error-budget conversations.
• Ship changes that reduce incidents and improve p95/p99 latency.
• Build automation to reduce toil and improve deployment safety through canary releases and rollbacks.
• Improve observability so it produces actionable operational signals.
• Debug and optimize bare-metal Linux systems, Kubernetes internals, physical fleets, and networking.
• Participate in on-call operations while reducing the volume and impact of on-call work.

Requirements

• Extensive production engineering experience running bare-metal, on-premises, or data-center infrastructure; public-cloud-only experience is not sufficient.
• Deep hands-on Linux systems debugging and performance expertise, including CPU, memory, and I/O behavior.
• Strong networking knowledge covering DNS, TCP, TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion, and troubleshooting under load.
• Strong Kubernetes experience beyond manifests, including scheduler behavior, autoscaling edge cases, kubelet pressure and evictions, and the etcd/control plane.
• Experience with Terraform, Docker, Helm, and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong coding skills in Go and/or Python beyond automation scripting; real engineering capability is required.
• Experience in low-latency environments.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote role for candidates in the United States.
• Work on complex infrastructure optimization involving physical fleets, finite capacity, and real hardware constraints.
• On-call participation is required, with success measured by reducing on-call demand.
• OTE up to $350k, comprising base and variable compensation and depending on experience.