Sr. Site Reliability Engineer at Tiger Analytics

Department: Data Engineering

Setup: On-site
Location: Washington, District of Columbia
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: May 8, 2026

Description

Forward Engineering is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) who will be responsible for ensuring the resilience, scalability, and high performance of their complex, data-driven AI platforms. This role involves a blend of software engineering and systems architecture, focusing specifically on MLOps to bridge the gap between model development and production-grade reliability.

Required Skills

Reliability & Performance Engineering
SLA/SLO Management
Error Budgeting
Scalability
Auto-scaling strategies
Kubernetes (GKE)
Model Serving Reliability
High availability of Vertex AI endpoints
custom inference services
GPU/TPU Optimization
Monitor and optimize compute resource utilization (accelerators)
cost-efficient performance for Large Language Models (LLMs)
Pipeline Resilience
Support and stabilize ML pipelines (Vertex AI Pipelines/Kubeflow)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
provision and manage consistent, version-controlled cloud environments
Terraform
Pulumi
CI/CD & GitOps
GitHub Actions
Cloud Build
ArgoCD
Task Automation
Develop custom Python or Go scripts to automate repetitive operational tasks, self-healing mechanisms, and resource cleanup.
Observability
Build and manage comprehensive dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, or Google Cloud Operations Suite (Stackdriver)
Incident Management
Act as a primary responder in on-call rotations, leading the technical resolution of production outages.
Blameless Post-Mortems
Conduct deep-dive root cause analysis (RCA) to ensure systemic issues are identified and permanently remediated through code.

Additional Information

Preferred Qualifications: Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) and Docker.
Familiarity with tools such as Kubeflow, Vertex AI, MLflow, or DVC.
Strong proficiency in Python (for automation) and Bash; knowledge of Go is a plus.
Experience managing the reliability of data-heavy services (BigQuery, Pub/Sub, or Vector Databases like Pinecone/Milvus).
Solid understanding of VPCs, Load Balancers, DNS, and secure service mesh (Istio/Anthos).
Translation Company Name: Tiger Analytics Inc.

Benefits & perks

Benefits
Significant career development opportunities exist as the company grows. The position offers a unique opportunity to be part of a small, fast-growing, challenging and entrepreneurial environment, with
Tiger Analytics provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, nation