Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Tavily is building the infrastructure layer for agentic web interaction at scale, focusing on real-time reasoning in AI systems. They are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to manage Kubernetes clusters, own infrastructure as code, and maintain CI/CD pipelines while working closely with a small engineering team.
Responsibilities
- Managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
- Owning infrastructure as code for all resources
- Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments
- Maintaining and optimize real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors
- Building out monitoring, alerting, and observability
- Debugging production issues across services
- Managing cloud costs and capacity planning
- Working closely with a small engineering team — you'd own infra, not a slice of it
Skills
- 5-8 years in a DevOps or SRE role, working in production environments
- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale
- Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment
- Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
- Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows
- Built or maintained observability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting)
- Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically
- Multi-region deployments
- Search infrastructure
- Data pipeline experience (streaming, warehousing)
- Proxy/networking infrastructure at scale
Benefits
- Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
- 401(k) plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
- Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
- Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
- Disability & life insurance : Company-paid short-term, long-term and life insurance coverage.
Company Overview
Tavily is a search engine for LLMs and RAG that connects AI agents to the real-time web. It was founded in 2024, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://tavily.com.