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Site Reliability Engineer (High Performance Computing) joins the HPC team to manage a shared compute platform used for vehicle and structures simulation, machine learning, AI inference, and other critical engineering tasks. This role focuses on implementing an SRE model by reducing toil through automation, improving observability, and establishing sustainable incident processes. The engineer will manage node lifecycles using infrastructure as code, oversee storage and compute resources, perform capacity planning, and build monitoring for both administrators and end users. Key technical requirements include experience with Linux operating systems, production infrastructure, and configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform. Candidates should be proficient in Python or similar languages for automation, and have familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, and high-performance storage. The role addresses the challenge of providing reliable, scalable compute services for complex engineering workflows.
What does a Site Reliability Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 59 postings across 16 companies.
Manage node lifecycles using infrastructure as code for OS images, firmware, and configuration management.
Build observability systems to monitor cluster health for operators and job performance for end users.
Develop automation scripts and software to reduce manual toil in production operations.
Perform sustainable incident response and conduct blameless postmortems during on-call rotations.
Manage compute and storage resources to ensure high availability for the HPC platform.
Lead capacity planning by translating user requirements into concrete plans for future infrastructure needs.
Maintain and optimize the entire ecosystem of Linux machines, storage, and user-facing applications.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, math, or a scientific discipline, or 2+ years of professional experience operating production infrastructure.
2+ years of experience with Linux operating systems in production.
2+ years of experience operating production infrastructure including monitoring, debugging, and repairing.
Eligibility for access to classified material up to TS/SCI with polygraph.
Must be a U.S. citizen, national, lawful permanent resident, or eligible for required export control authorizations.
2+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or production infrastructure engineering (preferred).
Experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Nagios (preferred).
Experience with configuration management or infrastructure as code such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform (preferred).
SRE
DevOps
Python
Linux
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Docker
Kubernetes
Bazel
Buck
Make
MySQL
ClickHouse
JavaScript
C#
C++
Observability
SRE
DevOps
Python
Linux
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform
Ansible
Puppet
Docker
Kubernetes
Bazel
Buck
Make
MySQL
ClickHouse
JavaScript
C#
C++
Observability