Deepgram

Site Reliability Engineer – AI & ML Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform

Deepgram

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $160,000 - $220,000 per year

About the role

  • Architect and maintain our core computing platform using Kubernetes on AWS and on-premise, providing a stable, scalable environment for all applications and services.
  • Develop and manage our entire infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles with Terraform, ensuring our environments are reproducible, versioned, and automated.
  • Design, build, and optimize our AI/ML job scheduling and orchestration systems, integrating Slurm with our Kubernetes clusters to efficiently manage GPU resources.
  • Provision, manage, and maintain our on-premise bare metal server infrastructure for high-performance GPU computing.
  • Implement and manage the platform's networking (CNI, service mesh) and storage (CSI, S3) solutions to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads across hybrid environments.
  • Develop a comprehensive observability stack (monitoring, logging, tracing) to ensure platform health, and create automation for operational tasks, incident response, and performance tuning.
  • Collaborate with AI researchers and ML engineers to understand their infrastructure needs and build the tools and workflows that accelerate their development cycle.
  • Automate the life cycle of single-tenant, managed deployments

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Proven, hands-on experience building and managing production infrastructure with Terraform
  • Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and operations in a large-scale environment
  • Experience with high-performance compute (HPC) job schedulers, specifically Slurm, for managing GPU-intensive AI workloads
  • Experience managing bare metal infrastructure, including server provisioning (e.g., PXE boot, MAAS), configuration, and lifecycle management
  • Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)
Benefits
  • Medical, dental, vision benefits
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Mental health support
  • Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Flexible schedule
  • 12 Paid US company holidays
  • Quarterly personal productivity stipend
  • One-time stipend for home office upgrades
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Tax Savings Programs
  • Learning / Education stipend
  • Participation in talks and conferences
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • AI enablement workshops / sessions
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesAWSInfrastructure-as-CodeTerraformAI/ML job schedulingSlurmGPU computingCNICSIPython
Soft Skills
collaborationautomationincident responseperformance tuning