Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure (AI)

Location: Seattle, United States; fully in-person schedule up to 5 days a week

Salary: $129,960–$246,240 annually, with potential additional bonuses, incentives, and restricted stock units.

Company

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

What you will do

• Partner with engineering and product teams across system design, architecture reviews, deployment, operations, and continuous service refinement.
• Build tools, platforms, and automation that improve reliability, scalability, R&D efficiency, and operational workflows.
• Monitor service health, latency, and key metrics for large-scale, multi-region systems.
• Lead infrastructure migrations and architecture upgrades in a highly restricted compliance environment.
• Manage capacity, resource allocation, stability optimization, error attribution, and SLA/SLO compliance.
• Drive incident management, blameless postmortems, and systemic root-cause resolution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• At least 1 year of hands-on SRE, DevOps, or systems engineering experience with large-scale, highly reliable systems.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, system performance, networking fundamentals, and Bash or shell scripting.
• Programming experience in at least one of Go, Python, C/C++, or Java.
• Experience designing, troubleshooting, and maintaining complex distributed systems in dynamic production environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and automated deployment pipelines.

Nice to have

• Experience with Kubernetes, service mesh architectures, cloud platforms, and Infrastructure-as-Code such as Terraform.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, distributed tracing, or other observability tools.
• Experience building self-service tools and automation, or applying LLMs and agentic AI to operational workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site collaboration in a highly secure and strictly isolated infrastructure environment.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance from day one, plus a 401(k) plan with company match.
• Paid parental leave, disability coverage, life insurance, and wellbeing benefits.
• 10 paid holidays, 10 paid sick days, and 17 days of paid personal time, with increasing accruals by tenure.
• Commitment to inclusive recruitment and reasonable accommodations.