Senior/Staff Site Reliability Engineer - Data Center
At a glance
Senior Site Reliability role at pathai. Boston · $146,250–$225,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Design and run data-center infrastructure that supports the machine-learning team, spanning on-premises systems and cloud services
- Build secure on-premises environments that meet NIST and ISO standards, then connect them with the existing cloud setup
- Use monitoring and automation to improve operations, and investigate infrastructure failures to strengthen reliability
- Join platform on-call rotations and help respond to urgent incidents
What you bring
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, software engineering, or a closely related technical field
- At least eight years working with physical hardware, facilities, networking, automation, or another relevant area
- Hands-on production experience with physical hardware stacks, plus knowledge of data-center network design and network layers
- Strong background in storage for high-performance workloads, infrastructure automation, observability, and virtualization or container platforms
- A record of operating critical production systems, including incident response and infrastructure scaling
Who this fits
This senior or staff role suits an experienced infrastructure engineer who can work across data-center hardware, networking, storage, automation, and cloud integration. The position is hybrid, with Boston preferred and New York City or Indianapolis also listed; remote work may be considered for an exceptional candidate. You must be able to travel to data-center locations as needed, and relocation support is unavailable.
From the employer
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.
- You have the ability to travel to onsite Datacenter location(s) as needed.
Preferred:
- You have outstanding interpersonal, verbal, and written communication and influencing skills: have built and cultivated important relationships both inside and outside of the organization and externally; have proven abilities to influence internal partners and stakeholders, thought leaders, national advocacy organizations, national standard-setting bodies, and other relevant external parties.
- You have strong analytical and critical thinking skills with attention to detail; you have the ability to manage multiple projects and drive results in a fast-paced environment; you have a collaborative mindset with demonstrated leadership capabilities..
This is a hybrid position based in Boston (preferred), NYC, Indianapolis. (A remote option may be considered for an exceptional candidate.)
Relocation benefits are not available for this position.
The expected salary range for this position based on the primary location Boston, MA is $146,250 - $225,000. Actual pay will be determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.
PathAI is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy and practice to employ, promote, and otherwise treat any and all employees and applicants on the basis of merit, qualifications, and competence. The company's policy prohibits unlawful discrimination, including but not limited to, discrimination on the basis of Protected Veteran status, individuals with disabilities status, and consistent with all federal, state, or local laws.