Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Site Lead

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

📋 Description

• Recruit, hire, and develop engineers to build the European engineering team.

• Transform company priorities into a targeted roadmap, overseeing work from design to production.

• Contribute to system architecture, review designs and code, and tackle critical technical challenges directly.

• Enhance Kubernetes infrastructure for provisioning, networking, storage, and deployment across various providers and regions.

• Strengthen isolation, failover, observability, and recovery processes.

• Develop a sustainable incident response strategy and utilize production experiences to create more robust systems.

• Automate the processes of capacity expansion, deployments, and maintenance.

• Define clear ownership, maintain documentation, and ensure efficient handoffs across different regions and time zones.

• Foster an engineering culture that emphasizes technical quality, accountability, collaboration, and the growth of engineers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure or distributed systems.

• A successful history of hiring and nurturing talented engineers, setting priorities, and achieving significant technical outcomes.

• Sufficient technical expertise to guide architectural decisions, challenge assumptions, and contribute directly when necessary.

• Experience in building and managing reliable services, taking real ownership of their performance in production.

• Strong foundational knowledge of Linux and practical experience with networking, storage, containers, and Kubernetes.

• Capability to write maintainable software and automate solutions for infrastructure challenges.

• A systematic approach to troubleshooting issues across application, cluster, network, and hardware boundaries.

• Good judgment in prioritizing tasks, simplifying processes, and ensuring reliability.

• Effective communication skills and experience collaborating across teams and time zones.

• Experience in establishing or expanding an engineering office or regional team is a plus.

• Familiarity with multi-region, multi-provider, or bare-metal infrastructure is advantageous.

• Knowledge of GPUs, model serving, or inference systems like vLLM or SGLang is a plus.

• Experience in constructing highly available services, multi-tenant platforms, or distributed data systems is desirable.

• Proven ability to lead teams through rapid growth while maintaining technical excellence and sustainable operations is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health benefits and wellness programs.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Engaging team culture and collaborative work environment.