Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Home Portfolio Portfolio Team Team Research Research Jobs Jobs Home Portfolio Portfolio Team Team Research Research Jobs Jobs Let's build together... Join our exceptional founders forging an intelligent future Search jobs 936 Explore companies 117 Join talent network Talent Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Thinking Machines Lab Software Engineering San Francisco, CA, USA USD 350k-475k / year Posted on Aug 5, 2026 Apply now The mission of Thinking Machines is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. About Tinker Tinker is our fine-tuning API that empowers researchers and developers to customize frontier AI to their needs — opening access to capabilities that have previously been concentrated in a handful of labs. We manage the infrastructure while allowing Tinkerers full flexibility in training open weights models with their own data, algorithms, and for their own needs. Tinker is rapidly adding new customers, features, and novel use-cases. We’re hiring to grow the platform alongside the Tinker community. About The Role We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability of Tinker end-to-end. You'll work alongside the engineers building the platform and research teams to make every layer of the system more robust and resilient. What You’ll Do Define and own end-to-end reliability, from CI/CD flows to production observability and incident response.Develop appropriate Service Level Objectives for distributed training systems, balancing job completion reliability and scheduling latency with development velocity.Design and implement monitoring and observability across the full training path.Drive incident response for Tinker platform issues, ensuring rapid recovery, thorough incident reviews, and systematic improvements that prevent recurrence.Harden multi-tenant isolation and resource scheduling so that LoRA-based workload co-scheduling maximizes utilization without compromising reliability or data separationCollaborate with security teams to address production vulnerabilities Skills And Qualifications Minimum qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.Experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.Proficiency writing software to solve reliability problems, including building tooling and automation.Experience with production incident response, postmortems, and systematic reliability improvement.Strong communication skills and track record of coordination across engineering and research teams. Preferred qualifications — we encourage you to apply if you meet some but not all of these: Deep experience operating production cloud services at scale (e.g., public cloud platforms, internal cloud services)Background in distributed training frameworks and how infrastructure failures surface in training behavior.Track record building checkpoint and recovery systems for long-running distributed jobs.Expertise in Kubernetes at scale: deploying, operating, debugging, and tuning clusters handling heterogeneous GPU workloads. Logistics Location: This role is based in San Francisco, California.Compensation: Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $350,000 – $475,000 USD.Visa sponsorship: We sponsor visas. While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the visa process together.Benefits: Thinking Machines offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support as needed. Apply now See more open positions at Thinking Machines Lab Powered by Getro.com Privacy policyCookie policy Portfolio Portfolio Research Research Team Team Read our FAQs © 2025 Basis Set Builders. All rights reserved Basis Set Ventures®, BSV® and the Basis Set Logo are registered trademarks of Basis Set Builders, LLC