Senior/Staff SRE, Compute
About the Team
Join a fast-moving, mission-driven engineering team building high-performance infrastructure for some of the most demanding workloads in AI and high-performance computing. This is a rare opportunity to work on cutting-edge systems at scale, alongside deeply technical peers who value ownership, curiosity, and impact.
The team operates in a collaborative, high-trust environment where engineers are empowered to solve hard problems and drive innovation across the stack-from kernel tuning to orchestration and observability.
Responsibilities
- Optimize virtualization performance (KVM/QEMU, NUMA, kernel subsystems) for AI and HPC workloads.
- Deploy and validate new compute nodes, including SmartNICs and DPUs.
- Build observability tools from kernel to orchestrator, including incident-response automation.
- Lead root-cause investigations and contribute upstream patches and config templates.
- Collaborate with hardware and kernel teams to accelerate I/O paths and integrate emerging compute technologies.
- Run game-days, inject chaos, and codify learnings into meaningful SLIs/SLOs.
Qualifications
- 5+ years in SRE, kernel, or virtualization engineering roles.
- Deep knowledge of Linux internals and system-level debugging.
- Hands-on experience with hypervisors like KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware.
- Proficiency in C, Go, or Rust; strong Infra-as-Code and CI/CD skills.
- Familiarity with SmartNICs, DPUs, and kernel-bypass networking.
- Proven success scaling high-throughput compute or HPC platforms.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation (cash + equity).
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Retirement or pension plan aligned with local norms.
- Generous PTO policy.
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