Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Bare Metal Linux – Data Center – Networking
Location: 100% remote – US
Compensation: up to $350k OTE
Our client, a publicly listed AI cloud provider, is building a platform for high-throughput, compute-heavy workloads. They run 1,000+ bare-metal servers across their own datacenters, where failure modes are real, capacity is finite, and reliability needs to be engineered, not “handled”.
We’re looking for a Senior/Staff SRE to own production reliability end to end. You’ll define SLIs/SLOs, run error-budget conversations, and ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99). You’ll build automation to kill toil, make deployments safer (canary/rollback), and turn observability into signal rather than noise.
This is a bare-metal environment: Linux, datacenters, physical fleets and real hardware constraints, not managed services. You’ll work close to the metal across Linux performance (CPU/memory/I/O contention), network debugging (DNS/TCP/TLS, packet loss, congestion) and Kubernetes running on bare metal. On-call is part of the job, but success is measured by how much you reduce it.
Must-haves
- Extensive, recent production experience running bare-metal / on-prem / datacenter infrastructure (not public cloud only), typically 15+ years in Linux-heavy roles
- Experience operating large fleets of physical servers, directly or as part of a team
- Deep hands-on Linux debugging and performance work at kernel level (CPU, memory, I/O, low-level behavior)
- Strong networking: DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion, troubleshooting under load
- Strong coding in Go and/or Python , beyond automation scripts. Real engineering capability is a must.
- Experience in low-latency environments , e.g. kernel tuning, CPU pinning/NUMA, kernel bypass, RDMA/InfiniBand, HFT or GPU cluster networking
Nice to have
- Kubernetes internals on bare metal: scheduler behavior, autoscaling edge cases, kubelet pressure/evictions, etcd/control plane
- InfiniBand
- C development
- Terraform, Puppet or Ansible; Docker, Helm and modern CI/CD
Why join
- Work on large-scale infrastructure powering the AI economy
- 100% remote, with competitive compensation
If you’re looking for complexity and a new place to nerd out on infrastructure optimization, we’d love to hear from you!
Staff Site Reliability Engineer (United States) in remote at Unknown Company
This position is listed as full time and able to be worked remotely.