Staff Site Reliability Engineer
Core Scientific · Austin, TX · 4 days ago
EngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex technical initiatives, from problem definition and design through implementation, rollout, and operation.
- Own the design, implementation, and reliability of systems across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
- Drive execution by coordinating work across engineers and teams, delegating effectively while remaining hands-on where needed.
- Partner with application architecture and peer teams to shape system design and influence technical decisions.
- Build, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications using automation and infrastructure as code.
- Implement secure, immutable infrastructure using modern tooling (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible).
- Improve observability, monitoring, and incident response practices.
- Establish and promote best practices for reliability, security, and operational excellence across teams.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar across the organization.
- Foster open, respectful, and professional communication directly within the team as well as with co-workers/teammates and leaders across the organization.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, 7+ years of experience, or equivalent demonstrated impact in SRE, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Broad technical experience across infrastructure and distributed systems, with the ability to design effective solutions, apply appropriate patterns, and anticipate scaling, reliability, and operational challenges.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems behavior, including application runtime characteristics, service-to-service communication, networking, and failure modes in production environments.
- Experience operating in regulated, compliant, or change-controlled environments.
- Experience working in hybrid environments (AWS preferred; on-premises infrastructure required).
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and orchestration tools (Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Ansible).
- Experience with Kubernetes and virtualization technologies.
- Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Datadog), including building monitoring and alerting integrations.
- Experience with build and release systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Makefiles, Python tooling).