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Site Reliability Engineer, Inference Infrastructure

Cohere· Inference
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Remote$190k - $260kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate high-performance ML inference platforms, focusing on deploying and maintaining scalable, low-latency, high-availability infrastructure for Cohere’s language model deployments.

Responsibilities

  • Build self-service systems that automate managing, deploying and operating services.
  • This includes our custom Kubernetes operators that support language model deployments.
  • Automate environment observability and resilience. Enable all developers to troubleshoot and resolve problems.
  • Take steps required to ensure we hit defined SLOs, including participation in an on-call rotation.
  • Build strong relationships with internal developers and influence the Infrastructure team’s roadmap based on their feedback.
  • Develop our team through knowledge sharing and an active review process.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of engineering experience running production infrastructure at a large scale
  • Experience designing large, highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes, and GPU workloads on those clusters
  • Experience with Kubernetes dev and production coding and support
  • Experience with GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI, multi-cloud on-prem / hybrid serving
  • Experience in designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting in complex Linux-based computing environments
  • Experience in compute/storage/network resource and cost management
  • Excellent collaboration and troubleshooting skills to build mission-critical systems, and ensure smooth operations and efficient teamwork
  • The grit and adaptability to solve complex technical challenges that evolve day to day
  • Familiarity with computational characteristics of accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, and/or custom accelerators), especially how they influence latency and throughput of inference.
  • Strong understanding or working experience with distributed systems
  • Experience in Golang, C++ or other languages designed for high-performance scalable servers)

Skills

Required:KubernetesDistributed systemsCloud platformsLinux administrationGPU workloadsGo / C++

Benefits

  • A weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent in local currency
  • Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health
  • RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
  • 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
  • Annual enrichment benefits: Arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time, and a workspace improvement credit
  • Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
  • 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
  • Budget for traveling to other offices if remote, plus an annual company offsite
  • A daily lunch program, snacks, and community events for in-office staff
  • Co-working benefit for remote workers to work alongside others in their city
  • $500 home office stipend to set up workspace
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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