Description
The Role: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
As a Senior SRE at Tavily, you will manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions, own infrastructure as code for all resources, and maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
- Own infrastructure as code for all resources
- Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments
- Maintain and optimize real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors
- Build out monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Debug production issues across services
- Manage cloud costs and capacity planning
- Work closely with a small engineering team, owning infrastructure, not a slice of it
Requirements:
- 5-8 years in a DevOps or SRE role, working in production environments
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale
- Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows
- Built or maintained observability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting)
- Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically
Nice to Have:
- Multi-region deployments
- Search infrastructure
- Data pipeline experience (streaming, warehousing)
- Proxy/networking infrastructure at scale
What We Offer:
- Full ownership of the entire infrastructure, not a slice of it
- Real scaling challenges, such as bursty scraping workloads, cache invalidation, multi-region, and millions of daily requests
- AI-native company, with your infra directly powering AI agents used by leading companies
- Competitive compensation and benefits packages
- Base Compensation Range: $147,200-$224,000 USD
- Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families
- 401(k) plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting
- Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
- Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet
- Disability & life insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage