Astera Institute · 15 hours ago
Site Reliability Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $300K/yrAstera Institute is a private foundation focused on steering science and technology toward an abundant future. They are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to manage and optimize the digital infrastructure that supports their AI research program, ensuring reliability and efficiency in resource access for researchers.
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Responsibilities
Ensure easy and efficient access to compute resources for our researchers
Provide clear visibility into resource utilization and cluster health
Enable automatic scaling of compute resources based on demand
Ensure the right people have access to the right resources
Drive towards deterministic deployments and reproducible research environments
Automate operational processes where it makes sense to increase efficiency
Qualification
Required
Ownership: You are comfortable being the person accountable when the cluster is unhealthy or capacity is tight
Systems Intuition: You understand how schedulers, containers, networking, storage, and hardware interact. You can reason about failure modes and design systems that degrade predictably
Operational Rigor: You value observability, reproducibility, and clear operational boundaries. You leave systems in a state that other engineers can understand, operate, and debug without you
Pragmatism: You can support experimental research workloads without forcing everything into a rigid 'production' mold. You know when to stabilize and when to allow controlled chaos to speed up discovery
Company
Astera Institute
Astera Institute is a non-profit that supports science and technology projects.
Founded in 2010
11-50 employees
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