Site Reliability Engineer
About The Position
Nscale is a GPU cloud provider delivering high-performance, cost-efficient infrastructure for AI-native startups and global enterprises, from bare metal through platform services. This career-level Site Reliability Engineer role owns automation, tooling, and the reliability of production services that run AI and GPU workloads at scale. The role participates in an on-call incident rotation and is expected to improve the systems it supports over time. The engineer works closely with Engineering, Networking, and Infrastructure teams to improve reliability across the stack. The position emphasizes ownership, automation, and making availability, scalability, and efficiency improvements through code rather than manual effort. Nscale describes its culture as fast-moving, with a focus on ownership, accountability, and urgency. The role offers competitive base pay plus equity, reviewed every 12 months, early scope, a progression plan, and flexibility in shaping the workday. The listed salary range is $130,000–$200,000 USD; actual compensation varies by skill set, experience, and location, and the role may also be eligible for bonus and equity.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of experience in SRE, systems engineering, or software engineering, including experience running production in a data center or cloud environment.
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or a similar language, with an inclination to automate work.
- Solid command of Linux, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems.
- Track record of troubleshooting live production issues and owning fixes through post-incident reviews.
- Fluency with monitoring and observability, including metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerting.
- Comfort working in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and taking initiative to fill gaps.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with AI or GPU workloads, or high-performance computing (HPC).
- Familiarity with high-performance networking, including InfiniBand or RDMA.
- Kubernetes experience, plus experience with virtualized or bare-metal environments.
Responsibilities
- Build and own automation and tooling that keeps the platform running, and reduce operational toil.
- Define and maintain SLOs and SLIs, along with dashboards that clearly show service health.
- Take point during incidents, troubleshoot under pressure, drive root cause analysis, and conduct post-incident reviews that lead to system changes.
- Investigate and resolve performance and reliability problems across Linux, networking, and distributed services.
- Partner with Engineering, Networking, and Infrastructure teams to improve reliability across the stack.
- Improve availability, scalability, and efficiency through code.
- Participate in the on-call rotation and help make production systems quieter and less demanding over time.
Benefits
- Competitive base compensation plus equity, reviewed every 12 months.
- The role may be eligible for a bonus and equity.
- A progression plan built around skills the employee wants to develop.
- Flexibility to shape the workday, with an emphasis on getting the work done.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
