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Senior Site Reliability Engineer
$186K–$232K
New York, NY +5 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- New York, NY
Boston, MA
San Francisco, CA
116 Huntington Ave., Back Bay, Boston, MA, 02116
16 E 34th St., New York City, NY, 10016
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years of relevant experience in Site Reliability Engineering, infrastructure, systems, DevOps, or a similar discipline.
About the job
Build and operate reliable cloud infrastructure, delivery systems, and operational platforms for product, data, and ML/AI workloads.
What you'll do
- Own shared engineering infrastructure, including compute, orchestration, deployment, observability, access controls, and reliability.
- Develop and maintain AWS infrastructure, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and reusable platform patterns.
- Establish operational practices and participate in incident response, diagnostics, root cause analysis, and post-incident follow-through.
What they ask for
- Production experience operating cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Experience with advanced diagnostics, incident response, root cause analysis, observability, and automation.
- Experience with AWS and Snowflake.
- Working experience with Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes, Python, Terraform or OpenTofu, and virtual networking.
Nice to have
- Experience with Azure, GCP, and/or Vercel; Terragrunt.
- Experience supporting production ML or AI workloads, or operating infrastructure in a regulated or validated environment.
Pay
$185,500 - $232,000 (total pay; currency not stated)
Tools
AWS, Snowflake, Azure, GCP, Vercel, Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes
AI focus
Use AI tools, including LLMs and agentic coding systems, to accelerate infrastructure development, investigate incidents, improve documentation, build automation, and support ML/AI workloads; validate AI output.
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