Mithril

Mithril

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Palo Alto / San Francisco Bay Area

Sponsorship not specified$70k-$75kDetected 91 days ago
PythonGoRustDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureKubernetesTerraformLinuxPrometheusGrafanaSite Reliability EngineeringMachine LearningCybersecurityTCP/IPDNSLoad BalancingResearchLeadershipCollaboration

About the role

  • Our engineering team is lean and high-impact.
  • What Makes This Role Different Most SRE roles at this stage are primarily reactive - on-call, incident management, keeping services stable.
  • You'll have real ownership, a short feedback loop to leadership, and the opportunity to define how infrastructure engineering operates as the company scales.

Responsibilities

  • We take our mission seriously and are committed to fostering an environment where you can make impactful decisions and drive success.
  • We also understand that life can present challenges, and if extenuating circumstances arise, we're here to support you.
  • Implement and own SLIs and SLOs across Mithril's API layer and internal orchestration services to ensure customer commitments are met.
  • Partner with Product and Platform teams to ensure new features are designed for operability, reliability, and performance from the start.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation; drive root cause analysis (RCA) for production incidents and implement durable fixes to prevent recurrence.
  • Build and maintain dashboards, alerts, and distributed tracing within Mithril's monitoring stack to provide high-granularity visibility into our multi-cloud infrastructure.
  • Develop and maintain Terraform/Pulumi modules and Kubernetes configurations to manage Mithril's growing multi-cloud provider footprint.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in SRE, Production Engineering, or Infrastructure roles at a high-growth technology company.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience: comfortable managing clusters, deployments, and troubleshooting production incidents in a multi-tenant environment.
  • Cloud proficiency in at least one major provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure), including practical understanding of cloud networking fundamentals (VPC, DNS, load balancing, security groups).
  • Coding ability: proficiency in Python or equivalent (Go, Rust, etc.) - you build tools and services, not just scripts.
  • proficiency in Python or equivalent (Go, Rust, etc.) - you build tools and services, not just scripts.

Nice to have

  • Experience with GPU/TPU-accelerated workloads or AI/ML infrastructure.
  • Exposure to multi-cloud deployments or niche/specialized cloud providers (e.g., CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, Nebius).
  • Familiarity with distributed systems concepts - service discovery, circuit breakers, consensus protocols.
  • Production experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Prior experience in a high-growth startup environment where infrastructure scope expands faster than headcount.

Compensation

  • In consideration of market analysis and various pertinent factors, the remuneration bracket for this role is set between $170,000 and $230,000.
  • Salary Range Information

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
  • 21 days of PTO & 14 company holidays
  • Own the tooling that surfaces supply-side signal - GPU availability, provider health, reservation fill rates - to both engineering and operations teams.
  • Write clean, maintainable Python (or Go) to automate repetitive operational tasks - from provider API reconciliation to automated health checks and capacity rebalancing.

Company info

  • At Mithril, we take our work extremely seriously, though not always ourselves.
  • We recognize that we are striving to achieve something substantial-an all-too-rare and elusive counterfactual contribution.

Equal opportunity

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  • Mithril maintains a strict commitment to Equal Opportunity employment practices. All applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation and identity, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other factors prohibited by local, state, or federal law.
  • We emphasize that candidates need not fulfill every expectation listed to be eligible for this position. Our objective is to cultivate a diverse team encompassing a spectrum of backgrounds, experiences, and skill sets.
  • Mithril maintains a strict commitment to Equal Opportunity employment practices.

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