Vultr · 2 months ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering
Vultr is a leading cloud infrastructure company on a mission to provide high-performance cloud solutions. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will focus on ensuring the reliability and performance of Vultr's cloud services through expertise in large-scale distributed systems and infrastructure automation.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureCloud StorageWeb Hosting
Responsibilities
Operate and scale Vultr’s control plane, ensuring availability, correctness, and performance across global datacenters
Design, implement, and maintain automation to manage hypervisor fleets (KVM, QEMU, libvirt) and supporting infrastructure at scale
Develop tooling and automation for Open vSwitch (OVS), BGP routing, and other networking components to ensure resilient and self-healing network operations
Continuously analyze and improve system performance across compute, storage, and network layers, with an emphasis on reducing toil and eliminating single points of failure
Implement advanced monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (Grafana, Sentry, SumoLogic) while leading incident response to minimize impact and drive postmortem culture
Maintain and evolve infrastructure pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Puppet) to enable safe, fast, and reliable changes to both control plane and hypervisor infrastructure
Work closely with Software Engineers, Network Engineers, and Product teams to align platform reliability with business and user needs
Produce clear technical documentation for runbooks, operational procedures, and automation frameworks to improve team efficiency and reliability standards
Coach and mentor team members in best practices for site reliability, incident handling, automation, and low-level Linux systems debugging
Qualification
Required
Proficiency in PHP with strong scripting and automation skills
Experience running large-scale distributed systems and control plane infrastructure in production
Strong background in hypervisor technologies (libvirt, QEMU, KVM) and Linux systems administration
Expertise in networking protocols and tools, particularly BGP and Open vSwitch (OVS), with automation experience
Deep knowledge of observability and monitoring frameworks (Grafana, Sentry, SumoLogic) and incident management
Advanced troubleshooting skills across compute, networking, and storage subsystems
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab) and configuration management (Puppet)
Familiarity with MySQL or similar databases, with an understanding of operational considerations for reliability and scale
Strong problem-solving abilities and the drive to tackle complex, low-level reliability challenges
Effective cross-team communication and collaboration skills
A commitment to continuous improvement and fostering a culture of operational excellence
Benefits
100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
$500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
Company paid Wellable subscription
Company
Vultr
Vultr is an AI cloud infrastructure platform offering latest generation NVIDIA GPUs and AMD CPUs and GPUs across 32 worldwide regions
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