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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Data Infrastructure
Seattle, Washington · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or a similar role.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Keeps large-scale data infrastructure reliable and efficient through incident response, automation, capacity planning, and production operations.
What you'll do
- Lead incident response and blameless post-incident reviews, and define SLOs and error budgets for critical data services.
- Plan capacity, tune performance, optimize costs, and automate operational work, including by leveraging AI Agents.
- Improve production operations and change management; support data center and AI infrastructure, and mentor and advise other teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, or similar role.
- Strong proficiency in a programming or scripting language (e.g., Go, Python, Bash) for automation and tool development.
- Deep understanding of Linux/Unix operating systems, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS), and distributed systems.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience managing large-scale data infrastructure such as MySQL, Redis, Kafka, or Flink, and production experience with Kubernetes.
- Experience leading complex incident response or operating and constructing data centers.
Tools
Kubernetes, Redis, MySQL, Message Queue, Go, Python, Bash, Kafka
AI focus
Design automation and leverage AI Agents to reduce operational toil, improve deployment safety, and build intelligent workflows; lead construction, maintenance, and optimization of specialized AI infrastructure.
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