Role Overview
We are seeking a high-caliber Site 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 on MLOps-bridging the gap between model development and production-grade reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- 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 for Kubernetes (GKE) to handle fluctuating workloads during model training and high-volume inference.
- MLOps & AI Infrastructure
- Model Serving Reliability: Ensure the high availability of Vertex AI endpoints and 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.
- Automation & Orchestration (Eliminating "Toil")
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use Terraform or 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.
- Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Response
- Observability: Build and manage comprehensive dashboards using Prometheus, 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.