[Remote] Site Reliability Engineer - AI & ML Infrastructure (Kubernetes, AWS & Terraform)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. The Site Reliability Engineer will build and operate the hybrid infrastructure foundation for AI/ML research and product development, focusing on creating a robust environment using Kubernetes, AWS, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain our core computing platform using Kubernetes on AWS and on-premise, providing a stable, scalable environment for all applications and services
• Develop and manage our entire infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles with Terraform, ensuring our environments are reproducible, versioned, and automated
• Design, build, and optimize our AI/ML job scheduling and orchestration systems, integrating Slurm with our Kubernetes clusters to efficiently manage GPU resources
• Provision, manage, and maintain our on-premise bare metal server infrastructure for high-performance GPU computing
• Implement and manage the platform's networking (CNI, service mesh) and storage (CSI, S3) solutions to support high-throughput, low-latency workloads across hybrid environments
• Develop a comprehensive observability stack (monitoring, logging, tracing) to ensure platform health, and create automation for operational tasks, incident response, and performance tuning
• Collaborate with AI researchers and ML engineers to understand their infrastructure needs and build the tools and workflows that accelerate their development cycle
• Automate the life cycle of single-tenant, managed deployments

Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Proven, hands-on experience building and managing production infrastructure with Terraform
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes architecture and operations in a large-scale environment
• Experience with high-performance compute (HPC) job schedulers, specifically Slurm, for managing GPU-intensive AI workloads
• Experience managing bare metal infrastructure, including server provisioning (e.g., PXE boot, MAAS), configuration, and lifecycle management
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and building developer tooling
• Familiarity with FinOps principles and cloud cost optimization strategies
• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking (e.g., Calico, Cilium) and storage (e.g., Ceph, Rook) solutions
• Experience in a multi-region or hybrid cloud environment

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision benefits
• Annual wellness stipend
• Mental health support
• Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
• Unlimited PTO
• Generous paid parental leave
• Flexible schedule
• 12 Paid US company holidays
• Quarterly personal productivity stipend
• One-time stipend for home office upgrades
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Tax Savings Programs
• Learning / Education stipend
• Participation in talks and conferences
• Employee Resource Groups
• AI enablement workshops / sessions
• For candidates outside of the US, we use an Employer of Record model in many countries, which means benefits are administered locally and governed by country-specific regulations. Because of this, benefits will differ by region — in some cases international employees receive benefits US employees do not, and vice versa. As we scale, we will continue to evaluate where we can create more alignment, but a 1:1 global benefits structure is not always legally or operationally possible.

Company Overview

• Deepgram provides a voice artificial intelligence platform for speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and voice applications. It was founded in 2015, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is https://deepgram.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

• Deepgram has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 2 in 2025, 1 in 2024, 1 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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