Senior SRE Engineer - San Francisco
About Plaud Inc.
Plaud is building the world's most trusted AI work companion for professionals to elevate productivity and performance through note-taking solutions, loved by over 1,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud is building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think. Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With ISO 27001, ISO 27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 compliance, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection. To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Why You Should Join Us
Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think. Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $250M revenue run rate achieved in just three years. Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction. Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion. Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success. Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development. Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.
What You Will Do
- Ensure reliability and performance of Plaud.ai’s AI products at scale
- Design and operate highly available, scalable cloud-native systems for AI workloads
- Own production reliability, incident response, and on-call practices
- Build observability (metrics, logs, tracing) and reliability automation
- Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets with engineering teams
- Drive postmortems and reliability improvements across the platform
- Lead incident response and continuous reliability improvement
- Partner with product and engineering teams on reliability design
- Improve observability and operational maturity
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years in SRE, Infra, or Platform Engineering roles
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure/OCI)
- Hands-on with Kubernetes and distributed systems
- Experience in on-call rotation and incident management
- Proficient in at least one programming language (Go, Python, Java)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting AI/ML or data-intensive platforms
- Experience of GPU cluster management
- Knowledge of SLO/SLA frameworks
- Experience in fast-growing or global products
- Exposure to multi-region systems
- Strong written and verbal communication