Staff Site Reliability Engineer
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- Remote · US only
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Company Overview
TENEX.AI's standard text
TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection. Our team is composed of industry experts with deep experience in cybersecurity, automation, and AI-driven solutions. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the AI-Native MDR landscape.
We’re a fast-growing startup backed by industry experts and top-tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital Partners and also backed by Shield Capital, DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As an early employee, you’ll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We’re a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
As a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at TENEX, you will be a key technical driver responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of our AI-driven cybersecurity platform. You will play a crucial role in designing resilient infrastructure, automating operational workflows, and shaping the future of our production environments while collaborating across engineering teams to drive technical excellence.
Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI—explore our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody it, prioritizing the irreplaceable collaboration and community of in-person work.
You will Bring:
- System Resilience: Design, build, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure infrastructure to support our AI-native cybersecurity platform.
- Automation & Tooling: Develop internal tooling and automation to streamline deployment processes, incident response, and capacity planning.
- Performance Engineering: Monitor system performance and proactively identify bottlenecks, optimizing infrastructure for low-latency, high-throughput AI workloads.
- Incident Management: Lead incident response efforts, conduct post-mortems, and implement long-term solutions to prevent recurring reliability issues.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Manage infrastructure via code, driving consistency, auditability, and scalability across our cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP).
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with sibling Engineering teams, Product, and Security teams to ensure reliability is baked into our development lifecycle from concept to production.
Required Skills & Qualifications
SRE & Infrastructure Expertise
- Core Engineering: 10+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Software/Systems Engineering, particularly in managing production systems at scale.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Deep expertise in public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and managing services such as Kubernetes (EKS/GKE), networking, and storage.
- Infrastructure as Code: Extensive experience with tools like Terraform, Pulumi, or similar technologies to manage complex infrastructure deployments.
- Observability: Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and tracing stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) to drive data-informed reliability decisions.
- Distributed Systems: Solid understanding of microservices architecture, distributed databases, and event-driven systems.
Soft Skills
- Communication: Clear, concise communication skills and a bias for collaborative problem-solving.
- Leadership Alignment: Proven track record of guiding multi-stakeholder initiatives and influencing engineering practices across teams.
- Analytical Rigor: Strong problem-solving, debugging, and analytical skills, especially in high-pressure environments.
Nice-to-have
- Domain Background: Prior work in cybersecurity, specifically regarding SIEM, EDR, or SOAR infrastructure.
- AI/ML Infrastructure: Experience supporting infrastructure for large-scale AI/ML workloads (e.g., GPU scheduling, LLM serving optimization).
- Startup Mentality: Background driving high-impact engineering initiatives in high-growth startups or enterprise SaaS.
- Strong familiarity with Agentic Workflows such as Agno, Temporal, etc..
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Relevant certifications (CKA/CKAD, AWS/GCP Professional Cloud Architect, etc.) are a plus.
Why Join Us?
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and Google SecOps solutions.
- Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations and system reliability.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your knowledge in AI, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.
If you're passionate about building resilient infrastructure, scaling AI systems, and working at the intersection of reliability and security, we encourage you to apply!
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Datadog · Grafana · Prometheus · Pulumi
Rare in TENEX.AI's other 27 open postings.
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
Azure · Kubernetes · Terraform
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
In most of TENEX.AI's ads
AWS · Cybersecurity · GCP · SIEM
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
76% of this description is written for the role. The rest is TENEX.AI's standard text, folded away below.
Read against TENEX.AI's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 17 open in Engineering. 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Cybersecurity (16 of 17), Python (14 of 17), AWS (12 of 17), GCP (12 of 17), Golang (12 of 17), Kubernetes (12 of 17), RAG (11 of 17)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Platform Engineer, AI & Security posted Oct 15
- Platform Security Automation Engineer posted Oct 13
- Principal DevOps Engineer posted Aug 31
- Senior Technical Program Manager posted Aug 17
- Principal Product Manager - AI posted Jun 30
- Senior AI/ML Engineer posted Jun 8
- AI/ML Engineer II posted Jun 8
- AI/ML Engineer posted Jun 8
- Software Engineer II posted Apr 16
- Senior Data Scientist posted Nov 25
- Software Engineer Intern posted Nov 21
- Software Engineer posted Oct 24
- Senior Software Engineer posted Sep 9
- Staff Software Engineer posted Sep 9
- Software Engineer posted Jul 28
- Principal AI Engineer posted Jul 17
From the team and dates on TENEX.AI's own job board.
Salary context
15 other open postings titled Staff Site Reliability Engineer state a salary: median USD 180,000 to USD 240,000 a year.
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