# Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at Tiger Analytics

> United States · Senior · DevOps / SRE / Infra · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/workable%3Atiger-analytics%3AAF0D1A3499 (read 2026-11-08).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Tiger Analytics](https://alderhq.app/companies/tiger-analytics)
- Location text: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States")
- Posted: 2026-05-08 (184 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://apply.workable.com/j/AF0D1A3499
- Skills listed (inferred): Python, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, LLMs

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (United States, n 316): p25 $170k, median $192k, p75 $215k

## Description (the employer's text)

### Role Overview

We are seeking a high-caliber Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Forward Engineering team. You will be the guardian of our production ecosystems, ensuring that our complex, data-driven AI platforms remain resilient, scalable, and highly performant. This role is a hybrid of software engineering and systems architecture, with a specialized focus on MLOps—bridging the gap between model development and production-grade reliability.

### Key Responsibilities

### 1. Reliability & Performance Engineering

- SLA/SLO Management: Define, monitor, and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for critical AI/ML services.
- Error Budgeting: Manage error budgets to balance the velocity of feature releases from the ML team with the stability of the production environment.
- Scalability: Architect and manage auto-scaling strategies for Kubernetes (GKE) to handle fluctuating workloads during model training and high-volume inference.
### 2. MLOps & AI Infrastructure

- Model Serving Reliability: Ensure the high availability of Vertex AI endpoints and custom inference services.
- GPU/TPU Optimization: Monitor and optimize compute resource utilization (accelerators) to ensure cost-efficient performance for Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Pipeline Resilience: Support and stabilize ML pipelines (Vertex AI Pipelines/Kubeflow) to ensure seamless data flow from ingestion to model retraining.
### 3. Automation & Orchestration (Eliminating "Toil")

- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Use Terraform or Pulumi to provision and manage consistent, version-controlled cloud environments.
- CI/CD & GitOps: Design and optimize robust deployment pipelines for both application code and ML models using GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, or ArgoCD.
- Task Automation: Develop custom Python or Go scripts to automate repetitive operational tasks, self-healing mechanisms, and resource cleanup.
### 4. Monitoring, Alerting & Incident Response

- Observability: Build and manage comprehensive dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, or Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver).
- Incident Management: Act as a primary responder in on-call rotations, leading the technical resolution of production outages.
- Blameless Post-Mortems: Conduct deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA) to ensure systemic issues are identified and permanently remediated through code.
### Requirements

Orchestration: Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) and Docker.

MLOps Stack: Familiarity with tools such as Kubeflow, Vertex AI, MLflow, or DVC.

Scripting: Strong proficiency in Python (for automation) and Bash; knowledge of Go is a plus.

Data Systems: Experience managing the reliability of data-heavy services (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, or Vector Databases like Pinecone/Milvus).

Networking: Solid understanding of VPCs, Load Balancers, DNS, and secure service mesh (Istio/Anthos).

### Benefits

Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, fast-growing, challenging and entrepreneurial environment, with a high degree of individual responsibility.

Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

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