Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Runware

Site Reliability Engineer ensuring reliability and performance of Runware's AI platforms. Collaborating across software, infrastructure, and operations to enhance observability and reduce incidents.

Posted 7/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in operating and troubleshooting production systems at scale, with a strong focus on reliability practices, observability, and incident management. Proficient in automation and improving system resilience through effective engineering solutions.

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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Distributed Systems DebuggingKubernetes and Container ManagementObservability Systems DesignIncident Management and RCA

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Hard Skills

Production Systems OperationAutomation and RemediationCapacity PlanningError BudgetsPython ProgrammingGo ProgrammingPHP ProgrammingDatabase Management (MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse)Distributed Messaging Systems (RabbitMQ)Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Soft Skills

Ownership of Production ProblemsCollaboration with Engineering Teams

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesContainersCDN PlatformsLoad BalancingHybrid Infrastructure

Industry Keywords

SLIsSLOsIncident ManagementOperational Toil ReductionHigh-Throughput APIsLow-Latency APIsGPU EnvironmentsAI and ML Workloads

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsGoKubernetesMySQLPHPPythonRabbitMQRedis

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own and improve the reliability, availability and performance of critical production services across the Runware platform
Define and evolve our reliability practices, including SLIs, SLOs, alerting, observability and production-readiness standards
Investigate complex production issues across distributed systems, APIs, networking, queues, databases and GPU-backed workloads, participating in our engineering on-call rotation
Lead and contribute to incident reviews and RCAs, turning recurring failure modes into lasting engineering improvements
Reduce operational toil through automation, automated remediation and improvements to deployment safety, recovery and system resilience
Work closely with Engineering and DevOps teams on capacity planning, performance, scaling and architectural improvements as the platform grows

Requirements

What you’ll need

Have strong experience operating and troubleshooting production systems at scale in an SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering or similar role
Have a strong understanding of distributed systems and are comfortable debugging across applications, databases, queues, containers, networking and infrastructure
Have experience designing and operating observability systems using metrics, logs and distributed tracing
Understand SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity planning, incident management and reducing operational toil
Have experience with Kubernetes, containers, IaC and automated deployment practices, alongside the ability to write software and automation using languages such as Python, Go or PHP
Take strong ownership of production problems and are comfortable participating in an engineering on-call rotation, taking issues from initial investigation through to long-term remediation
Bonus
Experience operating high-throughput or low-latency APIs and distributed systems
Experience with bare-metal infrastructure, GPU environments or AI and ML workloads
Experience with RabbitMQ or other distributed messaging and queueing systems
Experience operating MySQL, Redis, ClickHouse or similar production data systems
Experience with global traffic management, load balancing, CDN platforms and hybrid infrastructure environments
Experience building automated scaling, capacity management or self-healing systems

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous paid time off – vacation, sick days, public holidays
Meaningful stock options – share in the upside you create
Remote-first setup – work from home anywhere we can employ you
Flexible hours – own your schedule outside core collaboration blocks
Family leave – paid maternity, paternity, and caregiver time
Company retreats – twice-yearly gatherings in inspiring locations