Senior Site Reliability Engineer (AI Infrastructure Operations)

Location: Houston, San Francisco, or Seattle

Salary: $170,000–$265,000 USD base salary per year, with potential bonus and equity.

Company

Nscale operates a GPU cloud for AI-native startups and global enterprises, providing infrastructure from bare metal through platform services.

What you will do

• Own reliability for critical production services and set reliability direction across the platform.
• Define and maintain SLOs, incident processes, observability, alerting, and sustainable on-call practices.
• Lead architecture and design reviews to build reliability into systems from the beginning.
• Lead complex production incidents, identify root causes, and implement lasting fixes.
• Build tooling and automation that reduces operational toil across the SRE team.
• Mentor SREs through design reviews, pairing, and incident debriefs while raising engineering standards.

Requirements

• 6–10 years of experience in SRE, systems engineering, or software engineering with production ownership at scale.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, or a similar language.
• Deep knowledge of Linux, networking, distributed systems, Kubernetes, and virtualized or bare-metal environments.
• Experience running AI or GPU workloads or high-performance computing environments.
• Experience implementing SLOs, observability, large-scale alerting, incident management, and sustainable on-call practices.
• Track record of serving as a senior technical voice during incidents and design reviews and mentoring other engineers.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with high-performance networking, including InfiniBand and RDMA.

Culture & Benefits

• Shared on-call rotation with a focus on reducing operational load over time.
• Direct ownership of reliability practices across the platform.
• Flexible approach to organizing the workday.
• Competitive base salary with compensation reviewed every 12 months.
• Potential bonus, equity, medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.