Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Bare Metal Linux | Kernel | Python / Go | Remote US [$300K Total Compensation] [AI Cloud Infrastructure] Our client is building a cloud platform for high-throughput, compute-heavy AI workloads. They operate large-scale infrastructure where failure modes are real, capacity is finite, and reliability needs to be engineered, not “handled”. We are seeking a Staff SRE who will own production reliability end-to-end for our client: define SLIs/SLOs, run error budget conversations, and ship changes that reduce incidents and improve latency (p95/p99). You will build automation to kill toil, improve deployment safety (canary/rollback), and turn observability into signal rather than noise. This is a bare-metal environment: think Linux, data centres, physical fleets and real hardware constraints, not managed services. You will work close to the metal on Linux performance (CPU/memory/IO contention), kernel tuning, and network debugging (DNS/TCP/TLS, packet loss, congestion). On-call is part of the job, but success is measured by how much you reduce it. You will sit in our client’s Hardware Infrastructure team and report to a team lead in Europe. This is a staff level role, typically 12 or more years of experience. Must requirements Extensive, recent hands-on experience running Linux on bare metal in data centres, ideally across hundreds or thousands of physical servers, not public cloud only Deep Linux expertise, including kernel tuning and troubleshooting performance and stability issues at OS level Strong coding skills in Python or Go, beyond automation scripting, and comfortable in a live coding interview A track record of building infrastructure automation and tooling that runs at scale Ownership of production incidents, from root cause analysis to lasting engineering fixes Strong understanding of networking (DNS/TCP/TLS, latency, packet loss, congestion) and experience in low latency environments such as trading, HPC, gaming or large-scale tech Nice to have, not critical: Kubernetes on bare metal, InfiniBand, C development, and configuration tooling such as Terraform, Puppet or Ansible. Location: United States - 100% Remote. Total compensation: up to $300,000 depending on experience Featured benefits : 401(k), disability insurance, paid maternity leave, medical insurance Interested? Contact me at [email protected]