Senior Cluster Site Reliability Engineer

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Cluster Site Reliability Engineer in California (USA) .

This role is designed for a highly skilled engineer to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of critical research compute clusters. You will maintain and optimize both on-premises and cloud infrastructure while implementing automation and SRE best practices. Working closely with engineering and research teams, you will solve real-time operational issues, drive systemic improvements, and build observability frameworks to monitor cluster health. Your work will directly impact cutting-edge machine learning research, enabling teams to operate efficiently at scale. This position offers the opportunity to apply your technical expertise to complex distributed systems and HPC environments while collaborating with a high-performing, innovative team.

Accountabilities :

• Act as a first responder to cluster outages or performance issues, triaging and resolving urgent problems efficiently.
• Maintain high uptime and define, track, and report on SLAs to quantify reliability.
• Diagnose recurring systemic issues and engineer long-term solutions in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain observability and monitoring frameworks, including custom metrics for cluster health.
• Support policy design for fair cluster usage and implement enforcement mechanisms for research teams.
• Forecast cluster growth, optimize scaling strategies, and improve operational efficiency across cost, performance, and usability dimensions.
• Collaborate with software and research teams to support distributed computing and machine learning workflows.

Requirements

Benefits

Benefits :

Jobgether is a Talent Matching Platform that partners with companies worldwide to efficiently connect top talent with the right opportunities through AI-driven job matching.

When you apply, your profile goes through our AI-powered screening process designed to identify top talent efficiently and fairly.

🔍 Our AI evaluates your CV and LinkedIn profile thoroughly, analyzing your skills, experience, and achievements.

📊 It compares your profile to the job’s core requirements and past success factors to determine your match score.

🎯 Based on this analysis, we automatically shortlist the 3 candidates with the highest match to the role.

🧠 When necessary, our human team may perform an additional manual review to ensure no strong profile is missed.

The process is transparent, skills-based, and free of bias — focusing solely on your fit for the role. Once the shortlist is completed, we share it directly with the company that owns the job opening. The final decision and next steps (such as interviews or additional assessments) are then made by their internal hiring team.

Thank you for your interest!

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