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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Site Reliability Engineer - **Company:** RUNPOD INC - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Bash Shell, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Linux, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Azure Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Datadog, Scripting, Grafana, Mttr, Reliability of Systems, Build Tools, Hardware Infrastructure, Golang - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/site-reliability-engineer-runpod-8966773 ## About the Role * 5+ years of experience in SRE, Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering * Strong Linux systems and Networking expertise * Experience managing containerized production systems * Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes * Experience defining and managing SLIs/SLOs * Proven incident response and postmortem leadership experience * Strong scripting or programming skills * Experience with monitoring and alerting systems * Excellent written communication skills * Successful completion of a background check Preferred: * Experience with GPU infrastructure or AI/ML platforms * Experience improving reliability in high-growth or large scale environments * Familiarity with GPU observability tooling * Experience with Infrastructure as Code * Experience working in startup environments * Experience building internal reliability platforms or frameworks ## Description This team is responsible for: * Defining and enforcing reliability standards across engineering * Designing incident response processes and improving recovery times * Building observability systems and reliability tooling * Driving SLO adoption and production readiness reviews * Reducing operational toil through automation The Reliability team works cross-functionally with Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Support to ensure our systems remain stable and performant as we scale rapidly. We value proactive problem solving, automation-first thinking, and strong ownership of production systems. As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Reliability team, you will focus on ensuring the stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed platform. You will partner with engineering teams to improve system design, strengthen observability, and prevent incidents before they happen. This role blends software engineering with production operations. You'll work on reliability frameworks, SLO design, automation, and production hardening, reducing errors and improving performance across different services and infrastructure. This is a high-impact role central to maintaining trust with developers running critical AI workloads on Runpod. Your Impact * Increase platform uptime and reduce incident frequency and duration * Establish and operationalize SLIs/SLOs across services * Improve MTTR through better tooling, automation, and runbooks * Strengthen production readiness standards * Drive long-term systemic reliability improvements You will influence how reliability is defined and measured across Runpod and help build the operational backbone of the company. Responsibilities: Reliability Engineering * Define and implement SLIs/SLOs for critical services * Lead incident response and coordinate cross-team mitigation efforts * Conduct blameless postmortems and ensure corrective actions are completed * Perform production readiness reviews for new services and features * Identify systemic risks and drive preventative improvements Observability & Monitoring * Design and improve monitoring, alerting, and dashboards (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.) * Improve signal-to-noise ratio in alerts and reduce alert fatigue * Build internal tooling for reliability tracking and reporting * Improve visibility into GPU performance and distributed systems health Automation & Toil Reduction * Automate recurring operational workflows * Build tools and scripts (Python, Go, Bash) to eliminate manual processes * Improve deployment safety through automation and guardrails * Strengthen CI/CD reliability and release processes Cross-Functional Reliability Advocacy * Partner with engineering teams to improve system resilience * Provide guidance on fault tolerance, scalability, and failure handling * Contribute to architectural discussions with a reliability-first mindset ## Related Videos - [Designing UX for SRE Agents in High-Stakes Incidents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100003-designing-ux-for-sre-agents-in-high-stakes-incidents) - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [What Developers Get Wrong About Application Quality](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/233-what-developers-get-wrong-about-application-quality) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Retooling and refactoring - an investment in people.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/371-retooling-and-refactoring-an-investment-in-people) - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) ## Related Articles - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Building AI Solutions with Rust and Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/494-building-ai-solutions-with-rust-and-docker) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 137 - AI'm not sure about this](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/485-dev-digest-137-ai-m-not-sure-about-this) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Dev Digest 131 - AI'm not sure about OSS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/472-dev-digest-131-ai-m-not-sure-about-oss)