Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Runware is hiring a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a remote role open to applicants in United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on Runware.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Builds AI ●●●●: the job is building AI systems.
- This is listed as a remote role.
- The posting mentions Python, Go and Kubernetes among its tools and skills.
- Level classes it as a senior role.
- Runware has 22 other open roles on Level.
AI in this role
Ensure reliability and performance of high-scale infrastructure powering AI inference and GPU workloads.
Runware is building high-performance infrastructure and products to power the worlds intelligence. Our platform enables developers and businesses to run fast, scalable inference across image, video and emerging modalities, while our Serverless platform allows customers to deploy and scale their own AI models on production-grade GPU infrastructure.
As a Site Reliability Engineer at Runware, you will help ensure these systems remain reliable, performant and resilient as we scale. This is a highly technical, hands-on role working across software, infrastructure and production operations to improve observability, reduce incidents, eliminate operational toil and build lasting improvements across complex distributed systems.
What you’ll do
- Own and improve the reliability, availability and performance of critical production services across the Runware platform
- Define and evolve our reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, alerting, observability and production-readiness standards
- Investigate complex production issues across distributed systems, APIs, networking, queues, databases and GPU-backed workloads, participating in our engineering on-call rotation
- Lead and contribute to incident reviews and RCAs, turning recurring failure modes into lasting engineering improvements
- Reduce operational toil through automation, automated remediation and improvements to deployment safety, recovery and system resilience
- Work closely with Engineering and DevOps teams on capacity planning, performance, scaling and architectural improvements as the platform grows
Requirements
- Have strong experience operating and troubleshooting production systems at scale in an SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering or similar role
- Have a strong understanding of distributed systems and are comfortable debugging across applications, databases, queues, containers, networking and infrastructure
- Have experience designing and operating observability systems using metrics, logs and distributed tracing
- Understand SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident management and reducing operational toil
- Have experience with Kubernetes, containers, IaC and automated deployment practices, alongside the ability to write software and automation using languages such as Python, Go or PHP
- Take strong ownership of production problems and are comfortable participating in an engineering on-call rotation, taking issues from initial investigation through to long-term remediation
Bonus
- Experience operating high-throughput or low-latency APIs and distributed systems
- Experience with bare-metal infrastructure, GPU environments or AI and ML workloads
- Experience with RabbitMQ or other distributed messaging and queueing systems
- Experience operating MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse or similar production data systems
- Experience with global traffic management, load balancing, CDN platforms and hybrid infrastructure environments
- Experience building automated scaling, capacity management or self-healing systems
Benefits
We’re a remote-first collective, meeting in person twice a year to plan, brainstorm, celebrate wins, and enjoy some face-to-face time. We have core hours for cooperative working and calls, but outside of that your calendar is yours. Work the hours that let you perform at your peak while also building a healthy life.
We move quickly and hold a high bar, but we also believe sustainable performance matters. After major releases and milestones, we create space for the team to properly unplug, recharge and come back with the energy to tackle what's next.
- Generous paid time off – vacation, sick days, public holidays
- Meaningful stock options – share in the upside you create
- Remote-first setup – work from home anywhere we can employ you
- Flexible hours – own your schedule outside core collaboration blocks
- Family leave – paid maternity, paternity, and caregiver time
- Company retreats – twice-yearly gatherings in inspiring locations
How we rate this
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Runware rates 85 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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- Tell me about a project where site reliability was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where distributed systems was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where infrastructure was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where gpu compute was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Python in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Site Reliability, Distributed Systems, Infrastructure, GPU Compute, and Python. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
- Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
- Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.
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