Key skills
KubernetesPostgresAIServerlessPostgreSQLGitOpsService MeshSaaSCI/CD
About this role
Role Overview
- Own reliability for Volcano end-to-end: Define and drive SLOs, error budgets, and incident response practices for all Volcano services
- Architect the platform's infrastructure: Design and build the multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure
- Build the GitOps and CI/CD backbone: Establish deployment automation, canary pipelines, and preview environment provisioning
- Scale managed data services: Design, operate, and harden multi-tenant PostgreSQL clusters
- Drive observability from day one: Instrument every Volcano service with meaningful SLIs
- Lead cross-functional reliability work: Collaborate with the OCTO team, product engineering, and security to bake reliability into Volcano's architecture
- Set SRE culture and standards: Mentor engineers on reliability principles; lead postmortems
- Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies: Given Volcano's greenfield nature, evaluate edge runtimes, serverless compute, vector databases, and AI-native infrastructure components.
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent
- Substantial experience at Staff or Principal IC level in SRE/Platform Engineering
- Proven track record building SRE or platform engineering practices for developer-facing platforms or PaaS/SaaS products
- Deep Kubernetes expertise: multi-tenant cluster design, networking (CNI, service mesh, ingress), autoscaling, and security hardening.
Tech Stack
- Kubernetes
- Postgres
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities