Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Anyscale
3+ days a week in office
Scalable compute for AI and Python
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Scalable compute for AI and Python
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make scalable computing effortless.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of relevant work experience in a Site Reliability or DevOps role, with a proven track record in high-growth environments
- Deep experience managing large-scale distributed systems and microservices architectures in multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Advanced proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, Go) and extensive experience with IaC tools like Terraform
- Hands-on experience architecting and troubleshooting production-grade Kubernetes clusters
- Demonstrated ability to mentor junior engineers, lead complex technical projects, and influence engineering culture without direct authority
- Strong ability to leverage data from logging and tracing infrastructure to identify long-term architectural trends and bottlenecks
What the job involves
- As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will lead the architectural strategy and operational excellence for Anyscale’s global production systems
- You will move beyond day-to-day maintenance to design autonomous, self-healing infrastructure that aligns with our rapid scaling goals
- You will be a key driver in establishing a culture of reliability, ensuring that every engineering team at Anyscale can deploy with confidence and high visibility
- Architect and develop a unified perspective on how cloud components are utilized across the company, taking into account diverse needs and requirements
- Ensure that deployment methodologies align with the company's reliability goals
- Design and implement systems that promote understanding of production environments, facilitating quick identification of issues through robust observability infrastructure for metrics, logging, and tracing
- Create monitoring and alerting systems at different levels, enabling teams to easily contribute and enhance the overall monitoring capabilities
- Establish testing infrastructure to support the team in writing and executing tests effectively
- Define and champion organization-wide Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets, ensuring they are integrated into the product development lifecycle
- Implement best practices and on-call systems, ensuring efficient incident management and up-leveling the incident management system at Anyscale
- Coordinate the creation and deployment of cloud-based services, including tracking deployments and establishing effective communication channels for issue resolution
Our take
Anyscale operates at the heart of the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure market, where organizations increasingly need systems built to handle large-scale, multimodal, and compiled AI workloads. Founded by the original creators of Ray - an open-source distributed computing framework powering companies like Netflix, Uber, and OpenAI - Anyscale was built to overcome the "AI complexity wall" that legacy compute can't handle. And its providing an AI-native platform that can scale seamlessly from as ingle machine to thousands of GPUs.
The company's impact comes from making distributed AI development faster, easier, and far more efficient. By pairing Ray's flexible compute framework with managed clusters, advanced developer tooling, and performance optimization, Anyscale removes the operational burden of scaling AI. Companies like Canva, Recursion, and RunwayML have seen dramatic gains in utilization, speed and cost. So it's fair to say Anyscale has helped teams deliver AI applications faster and with greater reliability.
The company recently strengthened its position through major partnerships with Azure, CoreWeave, and Google Cloud, bringing AI-native compute directly into enterprise environments. New capabilities like RayTurbo, Kubernetes-native deployment, and first-party managed Ray services make it easier than ever to run high-performance AI at scale. With model sizes and multimodal workloads growing rapidly, Anyscale is in a good position to remain a foundational platform for organizations building the next generation of AI systems.
Kirsty
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Insights
133% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$99m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $259.6m
Company benefits
- Health, Vision, and Dental Care: We offer a wide range of health, dental, and vision coverage options for you and your family—including many plans that are 99% covered by Anyscale
- Fertility Benefits & Paid Parental Leave: Anyscalers can access fertility benefits through Kindbody. Team members can take advantage of 12 weeks of paid leave following the arrival of a new little one.
- Flexible Time Off: We believe all team members should be able to rest up and recharge when needed, which is why we’ve embraced a flexible time off policy at Anyscale.
- Learning & Wellness Stipend: We believe in investing in our #1 asset: our people. We offer a monthly learning and wellness stipend so employees can better themselves at work or pursue personal interests.
- In-Office Meals: Lunch is served everyday in our San Francisco and Palo Alto Offices. Dinner, too, if you’re ever working late. And did we mention boba runs?
- Commute Reimbursement: Whether you’re hopping on public transit or driving yourself to work, Anyscale covers a portion of your commuting costs each month.
- Paid Volunteer Time Off: Give back to the causes and communities you love with paid time off specifically for volunteer work.
- Mental Health Benefits: All Anyscalers can take advantage of included mental health benefits through our Headspace offering.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Phillip Moritz
(Co-Founder & CTO)Phillip graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a PhD in Computer Science.
Keerti Melkote
(CEO)Prior to joining Anyscale in 2024, Keerti spent 5 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise at the President of Intelligent Edge. They also co-founded Aruba Networks where they spent nearly 20 years in roles including CTO and CEO.
Jooree Na
(CFO)Prior to joining Anyscale in 2024, Jooree spent over 5 years at Confluent, joining as a Director of Technical Accounting & Reporting before working through different roles and becoming the VP of Finance.
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