[Hiring] Senior Site Reliability Engineer @Runlayer

Role Description

As our Site Reliability Engineer, you'll own the reliability, performance, and scalability of Runlayer's infrastructure as we grow to serve enterprise customers across cloud and on-prem environments.

Why You'll Thrive Here

• Impact: Build the infrastructure foundation for the enterprise MCP platform, directly enabling AI adoption at scale.
• Excellence: Work closely with founders and a small, senior engineering team shipping fast in a high-growth environment.
• Ownership: Own reliability end-to-end, from database performance to incident response to CI/CD pipelines.

What You'll Do

• Own reliability and performance of our cloud infrastructure across AWS (ECS, Aurora, CloudWatch) and GCP.
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration.
• Drive database reliability engineering, including performance tuning and scaling.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for rapid, safe deployments.
• Run incident response and on-call rotations.
• Partner with product engineers to design scalable, resilient systems.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS experience, particularly ECS, Aurora, and CloudWatch.
• GCP experience as we expand cross-cloud.
• Kubernetes and container orchestration expertise.
• DBRE experience with database performance tuning.
• CI/CD pipeline ownership and incident response experience.
• Background at a B2B SaaS company serving enterprise customers, ideally in infrastructure.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience deploying and supporting on-prem or hybrid environments.
• Python backend familiarity (our platform is Python-based).
• Experience at an early-stage or high-growth company.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity — compensation that reflects your expertise and customer-facing responsibilities.
• Paid time off — 4 weeks paid vacation, paid sick leave, and paid parental leave.
• Professional development — budget for conferences, courses, and certifications in AI, enterprise software, and customer success.
• Top-tier equipment — your choice of laptop and accessories to create your ideal work environment.
• Health benefits — comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Customer interaction opportunities — work directly with innovative companies and see the immediate impact of your work.