Lead Site Reliability Engineer – Network Infrastructure

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Asia.

📋 Description

• Establish and manage reliability objectives for network services and critical pathways in the APAC region, encompassing SLIs/SLOs, availability goals, and error budgets.

• Propel reliability enhancements throughout the APAC network, focusing on site readiness, inter-site connectivity, and operational standards for new data centers.

• Oversee incident response, lead investigations and postmortems, implement lasting solutions, and develop regional on-call and incident management protocols.

• Enhance observability through metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and expedited debugging workflows.

• Create safer network change processes utilizing automation, CI/CD, test/staging environments, canary deployments, rollbacks, and audit trails.

• Collaborate with network engineers and platform teams across APAC and Europe.

• Recruit, onboard, and mentor the initial regional SREs while establishing high engineering standards.

• Coordinate with European teams for smooth handoffs and cross-time-zone support.

• Develop and manage Nebius's APAC network infrastructure as the region grows.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in SRE/infrastructure engineering, including experience in a leadership role or serving as a technical lead with comprehensive ownership of production systems.

• Strong foundational knowledge of production Linux and a methodical approach to troubleshooting complex systems.

• Solid grasp of networking fundamentals and an understanding of potential network failures (control plane vs data plane, latency/loss, failure domains, etc.).

• Practical experience in operating high-availability systems and their continuous improvement.

• Ability to write and maintain software/automation; experience with Go is preferred, while Python is also appreciated.

• Familiarity with contemporary infrastructure tools, including IaC, CI/CD, and container platforms.

• Capability to work autonomously in a startup environment, creating processes and building a team from the ground up.

• Willingness to maintain a hands-on approach while leading and developing a team.

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the country where they apply and must provide proof of employment eligibility.

• Bonus points for experience with high-throughput traffic management, low-level networking performance/debugging, network-safe delivery pipelines, large-scale network observability/telemetry, or knowledge of the APAC network landscape.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Opportunities for career advancement and professional development.

• Flexibility and a sense of ownership.

• A collaborative and innovative work culture.

• Chance to contribute to significant AI projects.

• International work environment with skilled teams.