Senior Site Reliability Engineer (In-Office Required)
Tavily · New York, NY · 1 wk ago
Engineering$156k–$262k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions, owning infrastructure as code for all resources. They will maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments, and build out monitoring, alerting, and observability.
Responsibilities
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
- Owning infrastructure as code for all resources
- Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments
- Maintaining and optimizing real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors
- Building out monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Debugging production issues across services
- Managing cloud costs and capacity planning
- Working closely with a small engineering team — you’d own infra, not a slice of it
Requirements
- 5-8 years in a DevOps or SRE role, working in production environments
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale
- Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows
- Built or maintained observability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting)
- Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically
Qualifications
- Full ownership — small team, you own the entire infrastructure, not a slice of it
- Real scaling challenges — bursty scraping workloads, cache invalidation, multi-region, millions of daily requests
- AI-native company — your infra directly powers AI agents used by leading companies in the space
Skills
- Full ownership — small team, you own the entire infrastructure, not a slice of it
- Real scaling challenges — bursty scraping workloads, cache invalidation, multi-region, millions of daily requests
- AI-native company — your infra directly powers AI agents used by leading companies in the space
Benefits
- Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families
- 401(k) plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting
- Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet
- Disability & life insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage
Pay
- Base Compensation Range: $156,000—$262,000 USD
Schedule
- Flexible work schedule