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Site Reliability Engineer

Astera Institute· Foundation
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Hybrid (Emeryville HQ)$100k - $300kFull-timePosted 8mo ago

About the role

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to own the digital infrastructure that powers our research, including compute resources, container registries, and dashboards. The role focuses on reliability, accessibility, and reproducibility of research environments across a broad set of responsibilities.

Responsibilities

  • Compute Access: Ensure easy and efficient access to compute resources for our researchers.
  • Resource Visibility: Provide clear visibility into resource utilization and cluster health.
  • Auto-Scaling: Enable automatic scaling of compute resources based on demand.
  • Access Management: Ensure the right people have access to the right resources.
  • Reproducibility: Drive towards deterministic deployments and reproducible research environments.
  • Process Automation: Automate operational processes where it makes sense to increase efficiency.

Qualifications

  • Ownership: You are comfortable being the person accountable when the cluster is unhealthy or capacity is tight.
  • Systems Intuition: You understand how schedulers, containers, networking, storage, and hardware interact. You can reason about failure modes and design systems that degrade predictably.
  • Operational Rigor: You value observability, reproducibility, and clear operational boundaries. You leave systems in a state that other engineers can understand, operate, and debug without you.
  • Pragmatism: You can support experimental research workloads without forcing everything into a rigid "production" mold. You know when to stabilize and when to allow controlled chaos to speed up discovery.

Skills

Required:OwnershipSystems intuitionOperational rigor
Nice to have:Pragmatism
Last updated Sep 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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