Sr. Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

We are seeking a high-caliberSite Reliability Engineer (SRE)to join our Forward Engineering team. You will be the guardian of our production ecosystems, ensuring that our complex, data-driven AI platforms remain resilient, scalable, and highly performant. This role is a hybrid of software engineering and systems architecture, with a specialized focus onMLOps—bridging the gap between model development and production-grade reliability.

Key Responsibilities

1. Reliability & Performance Engineering

• SLA/SLO Management:Define, monitor, and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for critical AI/ML services.
• Error Budgeting:Manage error budgets to balance the velocity of feature releases from the ML team with the stability of the production environment.
• Scalability:Architect and manage auto-scaling strategies forKubernetes (GKE)to handle fluctuating workloads during model training and high-volume inference.

2. MLOps & AI Infrastructure

• Model Serving Reliability:Ensure the high availability ofVertex AI endpointsand custom inference services.
• GPU/TPU Optimization:Monitor and optimize compute resource utilization (accelerators) to ensure cost-efficient performance for Large Language Models (LLMs).
• Pipeline Resilience:Support and stabilize ML pipelines (Vertex AI Pipelines/Kubeflow) to ensure seamless data flow from ingestion to model retraining.

3. Automation & Orchestration (Eliminating "Toil")

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC):UseTerraformor Pulumi to provision and manage consistent, version-controlled cloud environments.
• CI/CD & GitOps:Design and optimize robust deployment pipelines for both application code and ML models using GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or ArgoCD.
• Task Automation:Develop custom Python or Go scripts to automate repetitive operational tasks, self-healing mechanisms, and resource cleanup.

4. Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Response

• Observability:Build and manage comprehensive dashboards usingPrometheus, Grafana, or Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver).
• Incident Management:Act as a primary responder in on-call rotations, leading the technical resolution of production outages.
• Blameless Post-Mortems:Conduct deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA) to ensure systemic issues are identified and permanently remediated through code.

Requirements

Orchestration:Expert-level knowledge ofKubernetes (K8s)and Docker.

MLOps Stack:Familiarity with tools such asKubeflow, Vertex AI, MLflow, or DVC.

Scripting:Strong proficiency inPython(for automation) and Bash; knowledge of Go is a plus.

Data Systems:Experience managing the reliability of data-heavy services (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, or Vector Databases like Pinecone/Milvus).

Networking:Solid understanding of VPCs, Load Balancers, DNS, and secure service mesh (Istio/Anthos).

Benefits

Benefits

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, fast-growing, challenging and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.