Thinking Machines Lab

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

San Francisco

H1B sponsorship available$350k-$475kDetected 4 days ago

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About the role

We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to drive the reliability of Tinker end-to-end.
You'll work alongside the engineers building the platform and research teams to make every layer of the system more robust and resilient.

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.
Collaborate with security teams to address production vulnerabilities

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.
Expertise in Kubernetes at scale: deploying, operating, debugging, and tuning clusters handling heterogeneous GPU workloads.

we encourage you to apply if you meet some but not all of these:
Deep experience operating production cloud services at scale (e.g., public cloud platforms, internal cloud services)
Background in distributed training frameworks and how infrastructure failures surface in training behavior.

Thinking Machines Lab's mission is to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence.
About Tinker

Depending on background, skills and experience, the expected annual salary range for this position is $350,000 - $475,000 USD.

Thinking Machines offers generous health, dental, and vision benefits, unlimited PTO, paid parental leave, and relocation support as needed.

While we can't guarantee success for every candidate or role, if you're the right fit, we're committed to working through the visa process together.
We sponsor visas.

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