About the role
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Deploy in San Francisco. On-site, full-time, paying $160k–$250k. Posted October 15, 2026.
About Deploy
Deploy is an intelligence infrastructure platform that gives developers and enterprises access to open source and proprietary AI models. For leading open source LLMs, Deploy operates an optimized model inference engine that keeps costs and latency low while maintaining high throughout. Deploy also offers a set of proprietary AI models that address challenges in content safety, AI & deepfake detection, sponsorship intelligence, and IP & publicity protection. Trusted by the world's largest and most innovative organizations, Deploy's solutions unlock high-performance AI model inference at production scale.
Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi. DevOps and Systems Team Our unique machine learning needs led us to open our own data centers, with an emphasis on distributed high performance computing integrating GPUs. Even with these data centers, we maintain a hybrid infrastructure with public clouds when the right fit. As we continue to commercialize our machine learning models, we also need to grow our DevOps and Site Reliability team to maintain the reliability of our enterprise SaaS offering for our customers. Our ideal candidate is someone who is able to thrive in an unstructured environment and takes automation seriously. You believe there is no task that can’t be automated and no server scale too large. You take pride in optimizing performance at scale in every part of the stack and never manually performing the same task twice.
Deploy has raised more than $200M from leading investors, including Tomales Bay Capital, General Catalyst, 8VC, Glynn Capital, Bain & Company, Visa Ventures, and others. The company has more than 250 employees across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, and Delhi. DevOps and Systems Team Our unique machine learning needs led us to open our own data centers, with an emphasis on distributed high performance computing integrating GPUs. Even with these data centers, we maintain a hybrid infrastructure with public clouds when the right fit. As we continue to commercialize our machine learning models, we also need to grow our DevOps and Site Reliability team to maintain the reliability of our enterprise SaaS offering for our customers. Our ideal candidate is someone who is able to thrive in an unstructured environment and takes automation seriously. You believe there is no task that can’t be automated and no server scale too large. You take pride in optimizing performance at scale in every part of the stack and never manually performing the same task twice.
Responsibilities
- Automate manual operational processes
- Improve workflows of developer, data, and machine learning teams
- Manage secure integration and deployment tooling
- Create, maintain, monitor, and audit secure infrastructure
- Manage a diverse array of technology platforms, following best practices and procedures
- Participate in on-call rotation and root cause analysis
- Maintain awareness of industry best practices for data maintenance handling as it relates to your role
- Adhere to policies, guidelines and procedures pertaining to the protection of information assets
- Report actual or suspected security and/or policy violations/breaches to an appropriate authority
Requirements
- Minimum 3 - 5 years of previous experience in development, operations, IT, or a related field
- Comfortable working on Linux infrastructures (Debian) via the CLIAble to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment
- Able to debug, optimize, and automate routine tasks
- Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently independently
- Able to physically lift equipment at least 30 pounds
- Can communicate effectively across teams and management levels
- Degree in computer science, or similar, is an added plus!
Technology Stack
- Operating Systems - Linux/Debian Family/Ubuntu
- Configuration Management - Chef
- Containerization - Docker
- Container Orchestrators - Mesosphere/Kubernetes
- Scripting Languages - Python/Ruby/Node/Bash
- CI/CD Tools - Jenkins
- Network hardware - Arista/Cisco/Fortinet
- Hardware - HP/SuperMicro
- Storage - Ceph, S3
- Database - Scylla, Postgres, Pivotal GreenPlum
- Message Brokers: RabbitMQ
- Logging/Search - ELK Stack
- AWS: VPC/EC2/IAM/S3
- Networking: TCP / IP, ICMP, SSH, DNS, HTTP, SSL / TLS, Storage systems, RAID, distributed file systems, NFS / iSCSI / CIFS
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Quick answers
How much does this Deploy job pay?
The posted pay is $160k–$250k.
Where is this job based?
San Francisco. The role is on-site.
How much experience do you need?
The posting asks for 3+ years.
How do you apply?
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