Site Reliability Engineer
US$146,500 – US$225,000 / yr base salary
Posted 11 Aug 2026
Advertised as “Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Center”
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- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Hybrid
| Base salary | US$146,500 – US$225,000 / yr |
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PathAI's mission is to improve patient outcomes with AI-powered pathology.
PathAI is transforming traditional pathology methods into powerful, new technologies. These innovations in pathology can help accelerate drug development, improve confidence in the accuracy of diagnosis, and get life-saving therapies to patients more quickly. At PathAI, you'll work with a diverse and talented team of people, who are dedicated to solving complex problems and making a huge impact.
We are expanding our team and recruiting for a skilled Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer focused on designing, building, and operating our on-prem/cloud environment.
The Opportunity
- You will advance the state of our operations by implementing SRE best practices - focusing on users, monitoring, and automation.
- You will design, build and operate our data center to support our rapidly growing Machine Learning team.
- You will build highly-secure on-premises environments handling NIST/ISO standards.
- You will integrate on-premises datacenter environments with existing cloud infrastructure to create a seamless hybrid cloud environment.
- You will improve the reliability and resilience of our infrastructure through root-cause analysis and reviewing gaps in designs, and implementations of our infrastructure.
- You will participate in platform on-call rotations and assist with urgent incident response.
Who You Are:****(Required)
- You have a BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering or closely related technical field.
- You have 8 years experience working in physical hardware/facilities, networking, automation or other relevant areas.
- You have demonstrated experience with modern datacenter network designs and comfort operating across network layers.
- You’ve administered physical hardware stacks in production settings (iDRAC/IPMI/Nvidia UFM/Juniper Systems).
- You have demonstrated experience and opinions on virtualization, containerization, or container orchestration platforms. (EKS-Anywhere/ClusterAPI/KVM).
- You have strong expertise in storage solutions and optimizing them for high-performance workloads (e.g., Quobyte, S3, FSx, EFS).
- You are highly proficient with automation tools; you eliminate toil by automating everything through scripting, configuration management tools (Ansible/RedFish).
- You’ve built monitoring infrastructure with modern observability tools (Datadog/Grafana/Prometheus).
- You have a proven operational background managing critical production systems, with extensive experience in incident response, infrastructure scaling, and navigating high-growth challenges.