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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Thinking Machines Lab· Core Engineering, Product, and Infrastructure
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San Francisco, CA$350k - $475kfull-timePosted 5mo ago

About the role

SRE role focused on driving end-to-end reliability for the Tinker platform, collaborating with platform engineers and research teams to improve robustness, observability, incident response, and multi-tenant reliability.

Responsibilities

  • Define and own end-to-end reliability, from CI/CD flows to production observability and incident response.
  • Develop appropriate Service Level Objectives for distributed training systems, balancing job completion reliability and scheduling latency with development velocity.
  • Design and implement monitoring and observability across the full training path.
  • Drive incident response for Tinker platform issues, ensuring rapid recovery, thorough incident reviews, and systematic improvements that prevent recurrence.
  • Harden multi-tenant isolation and resource scheduling so that LoRA-based workload co-scheduling maximizes utilization without compromising reliability or data separation
  • Collaborate with security teams to address production vulnerabilities

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
  • Experience in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.
  • Proficiency writing software to solve reliability problems, including building tooling and automation.
  • Experience with production incident response, postmortems, and systematic reliability improvement.
  • Strong communication skills and track record of coordination across engineering and research teams

Skills

Required:End-to-end reliability ownershipService Level Objectives (SLOs) designMonitoring and observabilityIncident response and postmortemsMulti-tenant isolation and resource schedulingSecurity collaborationCommunication and cross-team coordination

Benefits

  • generous health, dental, and vision benefits
  • unlimited PTO
  • paid parental leave
  • relocation support as needed
Last updated Jul 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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