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Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Remote USA)

TechInsights · Denver, CO · 3 wk ago
RemoteRemoteEngineering$149k–$158k/yrFull-time

Why Work With Us

Company-sponsored training and development opportunities
Comprehensive benefits package (health, dental, vision, wellness, 401K Matching, annual fitness reimbursement)
Flexible vacation policy
Community involvement opportunities through charitable alliances: https://www.techinsights.com/community-involvement
Wellness resources and support
Inclusive environment that prioritizes diversity, equity, and accessibility
High-growth company driven by high performance

The Opportunity

Our next chapter is an AI-first intelligence platform running the most demanding semiconductor intelligence workflows. We're looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability foundation.

What You’ll Do

  • Platform Reliability & AI Operations
    • Own SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for all production services; drive error budget discipline across engineering
    • Design reliability patterns for AI agent pipelines: LLM observability, tool-use tracking, failure detection, and graceful degradation
    • Architect for blast radius containment — agent failures must have bounded customer impact through isolation, circuit breaking, and rapid recovery
    • Mature our Canada Central/West active-active architecture toward 24-hour RTO with full regional failover
    • Lead incident response and post-incident reviews that produce durable fixes; maintain DR procedures through regular testing
  • Developer & AI Engineering Enablement
    • Serve as the primary reliability liaison to Software and AI Engineering, translating requirements into actionable standards
    • Partner with AI Engineering on compute provisioning, model serving, inference latency, and workload isolation
    • Own CI/CD pipeline strategy (Bitbucket Pipelines, GitHub Actions) — set standards, optimize deployment frequency, and ensure teams can ship confidently
    • Drive IDP adoption and enable teams on SRE practices: on-call readiness, SLO definition, runbook development, and self-service tooling
    • Represent reliability in architectural discussions; surface risk before it's committed to design
  • Observability, IDP & Service Catalog
    • Own the service catalog — a living inventory of all services, AI agents, dependencies, ownership, and SLOs
    • Extend observability to AI workloads: LLM latency, token consumption, agent completion rates, and pipeline throughput
    • Build golden path templates in Backstage and/or Atlassian Compass so teams ship reliably without routine SRE involvement
    • Apply AIOps in Datadog to automate anomaly detection, incident triage, and remediation recommendations
  • FinOps, IaC & Continuous Improvement
    • Own infrastructure as code via Terraform and GitOps; enforce IaC policy in partnership with Trust Assurance
    • Own FinOps visibility into AWS cost segments; model cloud cost impact as AI/ML workloads scale
    • Formally mentor junior and intermediate SRE engineers, with accountability for their technical growth and career progression
    • Build AI-assisted automation to progressively reduce toil and scale the team's operational capacity

What You’ll Bring

  • Technical Requirements
    • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience
    • 6–8 years of progressive experience in site reliability engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps, with demonstrated technical leadership at the senior individual contributor level
    • Deep expertise in AWS (EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, AWS Config)
    • Proficiency with Terraform and GitOps; experience with policy-as-code (Sentinel, OPA/Rego, or equivalent)
    • Strong containerization expertise: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
    • Proficiency in Python and/or Bash; experience building operational tooling; solid understanding of Java and Spring Boot microservice architecture sufficient to make reliability and deployment decisions for EKS-hosted services
    • Familiarity with IDP tooling (Backstage, Atlassian Compass, or equivalent) strongly preferred
    • Experience with AI/ML workload infrastructure, LLM API integration, or agentic system operations considered a strong asset
  • Professional Skills
    • Leads and owns strategic reliability initiatives end-to-end with a high degree of autonomy; accountable for outcomes, not just tasks
    • Sets technical direction and influences team and department strategy
    • Solves complex, ambiguous reliability problems through systematic analysis and first-principles thinking
    • Formally mentors junior and intermediate engineers; builds team capability through coaching and knowledge transfer
    • Communicates technical reliability concepts clearly to engineering, product, and leadership audiences
    • Approaches operational work with an AI-first posture: builds automation and intelligent tooling as the default

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience designing reliability architecture for agentic AI systems: agent loop observability, blast radius isolation, graceful degradation for LLM-dependent services
  • AWS certifications: Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent
  • FinOps Certified Practitioner or demonstrated cloud cost management experience at scale
  • IDP implementation or developer experience program leadership
  • Experience in semiconductor, SaaS, or data-intensive platform environments
  • Experience operating in environments with export-controlled or regulated data
  • Knowledge of BCP/DR program management and formal recovery testing

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