Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Center
PathAI is hiring a Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Center in Boston, United States. It pays $146k-$225k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on PathAI.
Level's read on this job
- Level rates this role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- The posting allows some remote work.
- Tools and skills the posting cites include Ansible, Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Level classifies it as a senior role.
- Level lists 9 other open roles at PathAI.
AI in this role
Design, build, and operate data center and hybrid cloud infrastructure supporting rapidly growing machine learning teams.
PathAI's mission is to improve patient outcomes with AI-powered pathology.
PathAI is transforming traditional pathology methods into powerful, new technologies. These innovations in pathology can help accelerate drug development, improve confidence in the accuracy of diagnosis, and get life-saving therapies to patients more quickly. At PathAI, you'll work with a diverse and talented team of people, who are dedicated to solving complex problems and making a huge impact.
We are expanding our team and recruiting for a skilled Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on designing, building, and operating our on-prem/cloud environment.
The Opportunity
- You will advance the state of our operations by implementing SRE best practices - focusing on users, monitoring, and automation.
- You will design, build and operate our data center to support our rapidly growing Machine Learning team.
- You will build highly-secure on-premises environments handling NIST/ISO standards.
- You will integrate on-premises datacenter environments with existing cloud infrastructure to create a seamless hybrid cloud environment.
- You will improve the reliability and resilience of our infrastructure through root-cause analysis and reviewing gaps in designs, and implementations of our infrastructure.
- You will participate in platform on-call rotations and assist with urgent incident response.
Who You Are:
(Required)
- You have a BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering or closely related technical field.
- You have 8 years experience working in physical hardware/facilities, networking, automation or other relevant areas.
- You have demonstrated experience with modern datacenter network designs and comfort operating across network layers.
- You’ve administered physical hardware stacks in production settings (iDRAC/IPMI/Nvidia UFM/Juniper Systems).
- You have demonstrated experience and opinions on virtualization, containerization, or container orchestration platforms. (EKS-Anywhere/ClusterAPI/KVM).
- You have strong expertise in storage solutions and optimizing them for high-performance workloads (e.g., Quobyte, S3, FSx, EFS).
- You are highly proficient with automation tools; you eliminate toil by automating everything through scripting, configuration management tools (Ansible/RedFish).
- You’ve built monitoring infrastructure with modern observability tools (Datadog/Grafana/Prometheus).
- You have a proven operational background managing critical production systems, with extensive experience in incident response, infrastructure scaling, and navigating high-growth challenges.
- You have the ability to travel to onsite Datacenter location(s) as needed.
Preferred:
- You have outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and influencing skills: have built and cultivated important relationships both inside and outside of the organization and externally; have proven abilities to influence internal partners and stakeholders, thought leaders, national advocacy organizations, national standard-setting bodies, and other relevant external parties.
- You have strong analytical and critical thinking skills with attention to detail; you have the ability to manage multiple projects and drive results in a fast-paced environment; you have a collaborative mindset with demonstrated leadership capabilities..
This is a hybrid position based in Boston (preferred), NYC, Indianapolis. (A remote option may be considered for an exceptional candidate.)
Relocation benefits are not available for this position.
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location Boston, MA is $146,250 - $225,000. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.
PathAI is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.
How we rate this
Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Center at PathAI rates 60 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.
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Skills and AI tools this role asks for
Questions you could be asked
- Tell me about a project where site reliability engineering 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 datacenter was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where linux was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where networking was part of your work. What did you do?
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure, Datacenter, Linux, and Networking. 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.
- Show where AI is part of your daily process, not a one-off project. This role expects it to be a running habit.
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