Site Reliability Engineer
Posted 14 Oct 2026
Advertised as “Site Reliability Engineer SRE - Internationalisation”
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- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Contract
- Full-time
No salary listed for this role.
Location: Palo Alto
Function: Infrastructure / SRE / Platform Engineering
About the Role
Our client is a rapidly scaling global consumer internet platform, with hundreds of millions of users globally and strong momentum in international markets.
As the business accelerates its global expansion, this role sits at the core of building next-generation international infrastructure, ensuring that critical systems are highly available, globally distributed, and resilient across regions.
This is a high-impact opportunity to work on multi-region architecture, global traffic routing, and large-scale distributed systems, directly shaping the reliability and scalability of a fast-growing global platform.
Key Responsibilities
1. Global Architecture & Disaster Recovery
Participate in the design and implementation of global infrastructure architecture
Own cross-region architecture, disaster recovery (DR), and high availability (HA) capabilities
Enable critical systems to support:
Multi-region deployment
Disaster recovery failover
Fault isolation
Improve overall stability and resilience of international business systems
2. Overseas Infrastructure Platform Deployment & Operations
Build, deploy, operate, and continuously optimise core infrastructure platforms in overseas regions, including:
Release / deployment systems
Monitoring & alerting systems
Configuration management systems
Service governance frameworks
Traffic scheduling systems
Ensure consistency, reliability, and parity between overseas and domestic infrastructure environments
3. Reliability Engineering & Incident Response
Design and implement a comprehensive reliability engineering framework for international systems, including:
Observability systems (metrics, logs, tracing)
Incident response mechanisms
Root cause analysis and postmortem processes
Lead cross-functional coordination during major incidents
Drive rapid service recovery and long-term systemic improvements
4. Internationalisation Infrastructure Enablement
Deeply understand overseas business requirements and architectural constraints
Drive the implementation of infrastructure capabilities in global environments, including:
Multi-region architecture design
Network architecture optimisation
Data architecture optimisation
Adaptation of core infrastructure services for global deployment
5. Cross-Team Collaboration & System Alignment
Collaborate closely with:
Domestic infrastructure teams
Product engineering teams
Platform teams
Ensure overseas systems align with internal architecture standards and best practices
Establish and promote reliability best practices across the organisation