Nebius

Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Compute Node Team)

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9 months ago
Remote, EMEA or Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior

Responsibilities

  • Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of compute nodes running virtual machines.
  • Analyze and debug Linux systems across user space and kernel space.
  • Troubleshoot production issues involving CPU, memory, NUMA, cgroups, and scheduling.
  • Work hands-on with virtualization and containerization using QEMU/KVM and Linux-native technologies.
  • Design and evolve observability capabilities including metrics, logs, traces, alerts, SLIs, and SLOs.
  • Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and postmortems while driving long-term reliability improvements.
  • Collaborate with platform, kernel/hypervisor, GPU, and infrastructure teams to improve system design and operability.

Requirements

  • Deep expertise in Linux user space, kernel space, kernel subsystems, system boundaries, and system constraints.
  • Hands-on experience with QEMU/KVM and understanding of VM lifecycles, performance characteristics, and failure modes.
  • Practical experience with containers, namespaces, and cgroups, including resource isolation and control.
  • Strong ability to analyze complex system failures using a structured, hypothesis-driven approach.
  • Understanding of SRE principles, system design and operations, and experience building and operating observability stacks.
  • Experience with Kubernetes internals or node-level components is preferred.
  • Experience with perf, eBPF, ftrace, strace, or kernel crash dumps is preferred.
  • Familiarity with large-scale compute or bare-metal platforms is preferred.
  • Open-source infrastructure or system software contributions are preferred.
  • Experience debugging hardware and driver-level issues involving GPUs, NVLink, or InfiniBand is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
  • Professional growth opportunities within Nebius.
  • Flexible working arrangements.
  • Dynamic and collaborative work environment.

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Site Reliability
Nebius

About Nebius

1,001-5,000 employees

Nebius builds a full-stack AI cloud offering GPU compute, storage, and tools for training and deploying ML models for startups, enterprises, and research labs. It sells consumption-based cloud infrastructure (IaaS/PaaS) and managed services tailored to generative AI workloads, including large-scale model training and inference. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam and operates as an independent provider.

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