Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect, operate, and continuously improve the core infrastructure powering a 25ms cold-start compute engine
• Build and evolve the observability stack including metrics, traces, and logs
• Define, monitor, and drive SLOs/SLIs across key system surfaces
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and post-mortems
• Design and implement self-healing, automated operational systems to eliminate toil
• Work across compute, networking, storage, and sandboxed execution layers to tune performance
• Build automation and tooling using AI agents to streamline operations and capacity planning
• Perform load testing, chaos engineering, and performance benchmarking
• Own security best practices at the infrastructure layer

Requirements

• 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
• Strong proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP
• Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems
• Experience with bare-metal servers and datacenter operations (PXE/iPXE, IPMI/BMC, RAID/NVMe, SR-IOV)
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar orchestrators
• Familiarity with observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Strong debugging and incident-management skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform or Pulumi
• Knowledge of service mesh or API gateway technologies
• Exposure to chaos engineering or resiliency-testing frameworks
• Background in cloud security best practices
• Prior experience in high-growth or high-availability environments

About the Company

Blaxel is AWS for AI agents. We provide cloud computing infrastructure optimized for the unique demands of agentic AI, featuring a purpose-built 25ms cold-start serverless compute engine. We recently raised a $7.3M seed round led by First Round Capital.