
Site Reliability Engineer
Northeastern University3 days ago
Boston, MA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$88k - $124k/yr
Responsibilities
- Measure and improve the reliability, availability, and performance of the research platform.
- Build and maintain observability systems for early issue detection and proactive debugging.
- Improve operational tooling and automation, including CI/CD, automated testing, and infrastructure as code.
- Create workflows for debugging and resolving distributed-stack issues involving Ray connectivity, GPU and resource allocation, and scheduling.
- Partner with the NDIF team to keep the platform dependable and usable as user needs evolve.
- Establish and advocate for operational best practices as the platform grows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 3 years of experience in site reliability engineering or a closely related role.
- Experience operating distributed systems in production and owning complex systems end to end.
- Strong Python skills and comfort working with backend services.
- Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana, or equivalent tools.
- Working command of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure as code.
- Ability to debug and optimize systems with minimal guidance and maintain team alignment through communication.
- Genuine interest in AI safety, interpretability, and supporting interdisciplinary research.
- Knowledge of MLOps is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits.
- Paid time off, tuition assistance, wellness and life benefits, retirement benefits, and commuting and transportation benefits.
- Expected hiring range of $87,785.00 to $123,998.75 per year.
- Position type listed as Information Technology.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability