Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure
Company websited-matrix.ai (d-Matrix, opens in new tab)
Base salary $175K to $265K
Employer-published annual base salary, USD. Advertised base range in Santa Clara, CA
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- LocationSanta Clara, CA
- WorkplaceHybrid
- Status at last checkSource accepting applications when checked
- Last checked (1 h ago) · observed since
About this job
Join d-Matrix and help build the future of AI inference. We’ve pioneered a memory-centric architecture that brings compute directly into memory, making AI faster, more energy efficient, and accessible on a global scale. From chips and software to rack-scale systems, our team is tackling some of AI infrastructure’s hardest challenges — and shipping breakthrough technology today. If you want to create what comes next and help make infinite inference possible, we’d love to hear from you.
Our culture is built on respect, collaboration, and direct communication. We value humility, we believe our different perspectives lead to better solutions, and we’re looking for people who are driven by execution and energized by hard problems.
Role Overview
d-Matrix's SRE team owns the infrastructure layer that every engineering team and customer depends on — colocation facilities, on-premises GPU clusters, cloud environments, and the platform services used to deploy and validate d-Matrix hardware and software. This role is a core member of that team, responsible for reliability, automation, and observability across colo, on-premises lab, and cloud environments. You will own systems end-to-end, from provisioning through live incident response, partnering with hardware and software teams on CI/CD, QA, and HPC workloads for silicon development, as well as supporting customer-facing environments where d-Matrix partners collaborate on deployments. This is hands-on, high-ownership work: you'll build and operate real infrastructure, not manage tickets.
What You Will Do
Own reliability and availability across colo server fleets, on-premises lab clusters, cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), and customer-facing platform services.
Perform hands-on infrastructure work — server provisioning, OS configuration, networking, storage, and hardware troubleshooting — from bare metal through auto-scaling Kubernetes environments.
Lead capacity planning and hardware lifecycle management for your domains, and track cloud spend to support FinOps and workload placement decisions.
Drive all provisioning, deployment, and operational changes through Terraform and/or Ansible rather than manual steps, and contribute to shared IaC modules used across the global SRE and data center services teams.
Build and document automation that eliminates toil — host lifecycle management, fleet health checks, auto-remediation, self-service tooling, and networking automation for cluster interconnects and lab configurations.
Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and SLIs (Prometheus/Grafana, DataDog, Splunk, or equivalent), contributing to AIOps-driven detection workflows.
Participate in on-call rotation, triaging and resolving incidents from bare metal to application layer, and produce high-quality RCAs for P0/P1 incidents.
Support platform services used by internal teams and external customers, ensuring QoS and uptime commitments and documenting operational runbooks.
What You Will Bring
Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience); 7+ years in SRE, infrastructure engineering, or systems administration.
Strong Linux systems knowledge with hands-on colocation or on-premises server infrastructure — networking, storage, systemd, kernel parameters, performance diagnostics, physical hardware, rack networking, and bare-metal provisioning.
Production IaC experience with Terraform and/or Ansible — writing and maintaining configurations, not just running existing playbooks.
Kubernetes operational experience: cluster troubleshooting, workload management, storage, and networking.
Experience with observability tooling — Prometheus/Grafana, DataDog, Splunk, or equivalent — including building dashboards and writing alert rules.
Production-quality Python and/or Bash scripting, paired with incident response experience: structured triage, RCA production, and follow-through on action items.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience operating customer-facing infrastructure or platform services with external reliability expectations.
Cloud infrastructure operations across AWS, Azure, or GCP, including hybrid environments spanning cloud and on-prem.
Experience deploying and operating AI-driven infrastructure tools — AIOps platforms, intelligent alerting, anomaly detection, or LLM-assisted diagnostics — in production.
HPC job scheduler experience: Slurm, LSF, or equivalent.
Knowledge of high-speed interconnect fabrics: InfiniBand, RoCE, or NVLink.
Experience with large-scale infrastructure automation — host lifecycle management, fleet auto-healing, or AIOps-driven operations — building tooling that reduces manual intervention, not just running it.
Equal Opportunity Employment Policy
d-Matrix is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcomed and empowered to do their best work. We hire the best talent for our teams, regardless of race, religion, color, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetic information, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, or veteran status. Our focus is on hiring teammates with humble expertise, kindness, dedication, and a willingness to embrace challenges and learn together every day.
d-Matrix does not accept resumes or candidate submissions from external agencies. We appreciate the interest and effort of recruitment firms, but we kindly request that individuals interested in opportunities with d-Matrix apply directly through our official channels. This approach allows us to streamline our hiring processes and maintain a consistent and fair evaluation of all applicants. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
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Pay in context
This role's base floor ($175,000) is above 47% of the 521 IT & Security roles in California listed on this site; 4 others list the same floor. Their median floor is $178,400; the middle half runs from $143,000 to $220,000.
Only jobs on this site count, and each one publishes a base salary of $100,000 or more, so this compares six-figure jobs with each other, not with the whole market. Computed Nov 7, 2026.
This listingSr Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure$175K to $265K
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Sr. Staff ML Researcher, LLM Algorithmic Optimization$175K to $265K
Chart as a table
| Role | Published base |
|---|---|
| Sr Staff Site Reliability Engineer, AI Infrastructure (this listing) | $175K - $265K |
| Sr. Staff Thermal Design Engineer | $175K - $265K |
| Senior Manager, Information Security | $175K - $265K |
| Sr. Staff PCB Design Engineer | $175K - $265K |
| Sr. Staff Design Verification Engineer | $175K - $265K |
| Senior Staff Inference Performance Engineer | $175K - $265K |
| Sr. Staff ML Researcher, LLM Algorithmic Optimization | $175K - $265K |
Observed changes
- First observed on the employer's board
- Began meeting the published-salary criteria
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- Observed since
- Employer-stated posting date
- 2026-09-29
Where this pay comes from
Location as the employer wrote it: Santa Clara
USD 175,000 – 265,000 · 1 YEAR · Salary
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