Fireworks AI
Member of Technical Staff, AI Infrastructure Reliability
$200K–$290K
San Mateo +1 · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Location
- San Mateo
New York - Experience
- 5+ years in systems fundamentals and 5+ years in software engineering.
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Defines and drives reliability practices, tooling, and incident response for Fireworks AI’s cloud and AI infrastructure platform.
What you'll do
- Set reliability standards, including SLOs, error budgets, and production-readiness criteria, using system telemetry.
- Own reliability tooling and operations, including observability, alerting, failure testing, automation, and incident management.
- Find cross-system failure risks and drive fixes with infrastructure, AI systems, performance, and product teams.
What they ask for
- 5+ years with Linux internals, system performance troubleshooting, and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, HTTP, gRPC).
- 5+ years writing production-grade tools and systems code in Python, Go, C++, or Rust.
- Experience operating and debugging Kubernetes, Terraform, and Docker in high-throughput production.
- Experience with distributed systems and reliability fundamentals such as fault-tolerant design, SLO/SLA management, automated failover, and high availability.
Nice to have
- Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry experience.
- GPU or ML infrastructure exposure, AI-assisted operations tooling, or open-source infrastructure/systems/ML-serving contributions.
Pay
$200K – $290K (base salary)
Tools
Linux, TCP/IP, HTTP, gRPC, Python, Go, C++, Rust
AI focus
Reliability engineering for AI infrastructure, including inference and training systems; preferred work includes AI-assisted investigation, triage, and automation tooling.
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