Site Reliability Engineer
- Salary
- $130,000 - $200,000
- Level
- Mid
Not stated in the posting: work type, visa.
Open. First seen 16 October 2026.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Golang
Rare in Nscale's other 133 open postings.
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
Kubernetes · Linux · Python
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
93% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Nscale's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Nscale's other open postings on this site.
The team: AI Infra Operations HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 25 open in AI Infra Operations. 10 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in April: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (17 of 25), Ansible (12 of 25), Networking (10 of 25), Embedded Systems (9 of 25), Grafana (9 of 25), Golang (8 of 25), Kubernetes (8 of 25)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Front-End Network Engineer posted Oct 16
- Sr. Data Center Operations posted Oct 15
- Principal Observability Platform Engineer posted Oct 9
- Senior Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Portugal) posted Oct 9
- Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Glomfjord) posted Oct 9
- Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Stavanger) posted Oct 8
- Centre of Excellence Senior Engineer posted Oct 2
- Operational Engineer posted Sep 28
- AI Infrastructure Support Engineer posted Sep 25
- Principal Technical Program Manager, AI Physical Deployment posted Sep 22
- Principal Network Engineer posted Sep 14
- Principal Infrastructure Engineer, AI Cluster Performance & Validation posted Sep 3
- Senior Network Engineer posted Aug 31
- Senior Observability Platform Engineer posted Aug 21
- Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) - AI Infrastructure Operations posted Aug 20
- Principal Infrastructure Software Engineer, Fleet & Automation posted Aug 14
- Principal Network Engineer posted Aug 10
- Infrastructure Operations Engineer, Asset Management (Batam) posted Jul 22
- Infrastructure IT Operations Engineer (Batam) posted Jul 22
- Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Narvik) posted Jul 16
- Staff Observability Platform Engineer posted Jun 9
- Senior Front-End Network Engineer, AI Infrastructure Operations posted Jun 2
- Principal Front-End Network Engineer posted May 12
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer -AI Infrastructure Operations posted Apr 3
From the team and dates on Nscale's own job board.
About the role
About Nscale
Nscale is the GPU cloud built for AI. We run high-performance, cost-efficient infrastructure for AI-native
startups and global enterprises, from bare metal up through the platform services teams actually build
on. Our culture runs on ownership, accountability, and speed. We move with urgency, we tell each
other the truth, and everyone here stays close to the infrastructure that makes AI work.
The Role
This is a career-level SRE role for someone who wants to own systems, not just watch them. You'll take
real surface area: the automation and tooling other engineers depend on, and the reliability of
production services running AI and GPU workloads at scale. You'll sit in the incident rotation, and you'll
be expected to make the systems you touch quieter over time.
What You'll Do
- Build and own the automation and tooling that keeps the platform running; treat operational toil as
a bug to be fixed, not a fact of life.
- Define and maintain SLOs, SLIs, and the dashboards that make service health obvious at a glance.
- Take point during incidents; troubleshoot under pressure, drive root cause analysis, and run post-
incident reviews that actually change the system.
- Investigate performance and reliability problems across Linux, networking, and distributed services,
then fix them at the source.
- Partner with Engineering, Networking, and Infrastructure teams to raise the reliability bar across the
stack.
- Improve availability, scalability, and efficiency through code, not manual effort.
What You'll Bring
- 3-6 years in SRE, systems engineering, or software engineering, including time running production in
a data center or cloud environment.
- Strong programming skills (Python, Go, or similar) and a genuine bias toward automating the work
away.
- Solid command of Linux, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems.
- A track record of troubleshooting live production issues and owning the fix through to the retro.
- Fluency with monitoring and observability; metrics, logs, dashboards, and alerting.
- Comfort in a fast-moving environment where priorities shift and you fill gaps without waiting to be
asked.
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI or GPU workloads, or high-performance computing (HPC).
- Familiarity with high-performance networking (InfiniBand, RDMA).
- Kubernetes, plus virtualized or bare-metal environments.
On-Call and Pace
A quick note on the shape of the job. This role sits close to production, so there is an on-call rotation,
and some weeks are busier than others. We share it fairly, and we treat every page as a signal worth
acting on rather than just an interruption. The goal is to make the systems quieter over time, so each
rotation asks less of the person carrying it. If you take ownership of what you run and like leaving it in
better shape than you found it, you'll do well here.
What We Offer
- Competitive base plus equity, reviewed every 12 months.
- Real scope early, and a progression plan built around the skills you want to sharpen.
- Flexibility that treats you as an adult; we care that the work gets done, and we trust you to shape
your day.
Salary Range
$130,000 - $200,000 USD. Actual compensation varies with skill set, experience, and location, and the
role may be eligible for bonus and equity.
Equal Opportunities Statement
At Nscale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enrich our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
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Salary context
47 other open postings titled Site Reliability Engineer state a salary: median USD 125,000 to USD 195,000 a year.
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