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Vultr · 14 hours ago

Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will ensure Vultr’s cloud services remain performant and resilient, focusing on large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and production operations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud ComputingCloud InfrastructureCloud StorageWeb Hosting
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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

Large-scale distributed systemsHypervisor technologiesNetworking protocolsObservability frameworksCI/CD pipelinesLinux systems administrationScriptingAutomationCross-team communicationContinuous improvementProblem-solving abilities

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

Excellent Medical Benefits w/ 100% company paid premiums for employee only plan + 100% company paid dental & vision premiums
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
Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year & 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
$500 first year remote office setup + $400 each following year for new equipment
Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
Company paid Wellable subscription

Company

Vultr

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Vultr is an AI cloud infrastructure platform offering latest generation NVIDIA GPUs and AMD CPUs and GPUs across 32 worldwide regions

H1B Sponsorship

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2024 (1)

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
$662M
2025-06-23Debt Financing· $329M
2024-12-18Private Equity· $333M
2014-02-20Angel

Leadership Team

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Mike Marinescu
Chief Technology Officer
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