RunPod
Site Reliability Engineer
Remote role where the employee must remain based in a particular country.
United States only
Employer listed it 3 months ago · Added yesterday
Been open since 3 months ago. Long-running listings are sometimes left up after the role is filled.
Salary
$150,000 to $200,000
Location
United States only
Timezone
US East
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Mid
Category
Software
Stated by the employer in the job description
Remote flexibility
Work from home
This is a remote role, but the employee must be based in United States. It is work from home rather than work from anywhere.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "Remote - USA, Remote"
- Job description states: "eligible to work in the United States"
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About the role
Runpod is the AI Developer Cloud. More than one million developers, from indie researchers to teams running frontier models in production, use Runpod to experiment, train, fine-tune, deploy, and scale AI on one platform. The platform has processed more than 20 billion inference requests. We closed a $100M Series A in June 2026. We're at an inflection point for AI infrastructure, and we're building the platform the next generation of developers will depend on.
We're a small, remote-first team. We take ownership seriously, move fast, and ship work that more than a million developers rely on every day. We're looking for people who care deeply, build with urgency, and want to matter at scale.
Learn more in our CEO's funding announcement: https://www.runpod.io/blog/one-million-developers .
The Reliability team owns the availability, performance, and operational excellence of Runpod’s global platform. While infrastructure teams build the systems, the Reliability team ensures those systems remain resilient, observable, and scalable under real-world production conditions.
This team is responsible for:
Defining and enforcing reliability standards across engineering
Designing incident response processes and improving recovery times
Building observability systems and reliability tooling
Driving SLO adoption and production readiness reviews
Reducing operational toil through automation
The Reliability team works cross-functionally with Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Support to ensure our systems remain stable and performant as we scale rapidly. We value proactive problem solving, automation-first thinking, and strong ownership of production systems.
As a Site Reliability Engineer on the Reliability team, you will focus on ensuring the stability and resilience of Runpod’s distributed platform. You will partner with engineering teams to improve system design, strengthen observability, and prevent incidents before they happen.
This role blends software engineering with production operations. You’ll work on reliability frameworks, SLO design, automation, and production hardening, reducing errors and improving performance across different services and infrastructure.
This is a high-impact role central to maintaining trust with developers running critical AI workloads on Runpod.
Your Impact
Increase platform uptime and reduce incident frequency and duration
Establish and operationalize SLIs/SLOs across services
Improve MTTR through better tooling, automation, and runbooks
Strengthen production readiness standards
Drive long-term systemic reliability improvements
You will influence how reliability is defined and measured across Runpod and help build the operational backbone of the company.
Responsibilities:
Reliability Engineering
Define and implement SLIs/SLOs for critical services
Requirements
- ·5+ years of experience in SRE, Reliability Engineering, or Production Engineering
- ·Strong Linux systems and Networking expertise
- ·Experience managing containerized production systems
- ·Strong understanding of distributed systems and failure modes
- ·Experience defining and managing SLIs/SLOs
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, work from home, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at RunPod, mentioning your remote working experience and working hours (US East).
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 1d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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