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Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering

Vultr is a fast-growing, privately-held global cloud infrastructure provider focused on high-performance, affordable, and locally accessible compute, GPU, bare metal, and storage services. The Core Cloud Engineering team is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to operate and scale the control plane, automate hypervisor and networking infrastructure, and drive reliability and observability across Vultr's global datacenters.

Skills

  • Proficiency in PHP for scripting and automation
  • Production experience with large-scale distributed systems and control plane infrastructure
  • Strong background in hypervisor technologies: libvirt, QEMU, KVM
  • Linux systems administration at scale
  • Networking expertise with BGP and Open vSwitch (OVS) and related automation
  • Observability and incident management using Grafana, Sentry, SumoLogic or similar
  • CI/CD pipeline experience (GitLab) and configuration management with Puppet
  • Familiarity with MySQL or similar databases and their operational considerations
  • Advanced troubleshooting across compute, network, and storage subsystems

Responsibilities

  • Operate and scale the production control plane across global datacenters ensuring availability, correctness, and performance
  • Design, implement, and maintain automation for hypervisor fleets (KVM/QEMU/libvirt) and supporting infrastructure
  • Develop tooling and automation for networking (Open vSwitch, BGP) to enable resilient, self-healing operations
  • Analyze and tune performance across compute, storage, and network layers to reduce toil and eliminate single points of failure
  • Implement and maintain observability: monitoring, logging, and tracing (Grafana, Sentry, SumoLogic)
  • Lead incident response, coordinate postmortems, and drive continuous improvement
  • Maintain and evolve CI/CD pipelines and configuration management (GitLab CI/CD, Puppet)
  • Produce runbooks, operational documentation, and standards for run-time operations
  • Coach and mentor engineers on SRE best practices, incident handling, and low-level systems debugging

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience preferred
  • Relevant certifications or industry training considered a plus

Benefits

  • 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums
  • 401(k) with 100% match up to 4% and immediate vesting
  • Professional development reimbursement: $2,500/year
  • 11 paid holidays, PTO accrual with rollover, increased PTO at 3 and 10 years
  • 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + annual anniversary bonus
  • $500 remote office setup stipend first year, $400/year thereafter
  • Internet reimbursement up to $75/month and gym reimbursement up to $50/month
  • Company-paid Wellable subscription
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Vultr, founded in 2014, is on a mission to empower developers and businesses by simplifying the deployment of infrastructure via its advanced cloud platform. Vultr is strategically located in 30 datacenters around the globe and provides frictionle...

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