Staff Site Reliability engineer - Network infrastructure - APAC
Nebius
American Samoa, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, British Indian Ocean Territory +48 moreremotePosted 2 days ago
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Key highlights
- Competitive compensation
- 7+ years of experience in SRE / infrastructure engineering
- Lead and build the first SRE team in APAC
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
Role overview
Nebius is building a full-stack AI cloud platform for the global AI economy, focusing on GPU orchestration and inference optimization. They are seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to build and run the fundamental network infrastructure for their APAC expansion. This is a hands-on role that begins with defining reliability targets and automation, eventually evolving into building and leading the local SRE team with a high degree of independence from European teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and own reliability goals for network services and critical paths in the region (SLIs/SLOs, availability targets, error budgets where it makes sense)
- Drive reliability improvements across the whole APAC network: not only services, but also site readiness, inter-site connectivity (DCI), and operational standards for new data centers
- Own incident response for your areas, lead investigations/postmortems, and turn failures into durable fixes (not repeated firefighting); set up on-call and incident management practices for the region
- Build and evolve observability: actionable metrics/logs/traces, alerting, and faster debug loops during and after incidents
- Design safer change workflows: automation, CI/CD, test/staging environments, canarying, rollbacks, and auditability for network changes
- Work closely with network engineers and platform teams in APAC and Europe to embed operability into designs and keep operations practical and fast
- Hire, onboard and mentor the first SREs in the region and set the engineering bar for the team
- Coordinate with European teams on handoffs and coverage across time zones
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in SRE / infrastructure engineering, including experience leading a team or acting as a technical lead with broad ownership of production systems
- Strong production Linux fundamentals and a structured approach to debugging complex systems
- Solid understanding of networking basics and how real networks fail (control plane vs data plane, latency/loss, failure domains, etc.)
- Hands-on experience operating high-availability systems and improving them over time (not just "keeping lights on")
- Ability to write and maintain software/automation (Go is common for us; Python is also welcome)
- Experience with modern infrastructure tooling (e.g., IaC, CI/CD, container platforms) and comfort automating operational workflows
- Ability to work independently in an early-stage environment and to build processes and a team from scratch
- Willingness to stay hands-on while leading and growing a team
Nice to have
- Experience with high-throughput traffic processing: load balancers, tunneling/decap, NAT64, or similar datapath-heavy systems
- Low-level networking performance/debug background (eBPF/XDP, DPDK, perf/ftrace, kernel networking internals)
- Experience building network-safe delivery pipelines (testing labs, staged rollouts, automated verification, drift detection)
- Background with large-scale network observability/telemetry (routing/flow telemetry, regression detection at scale)
- Knowledge of the APAC network landscape (carriers, IX, regional connectivity and regulatory specifics)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Career growth and learning opportunities
- Flexibility and ownership
- Collaborative and innovative culture
- Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
- International environment and talented teams
Additional details
- Nebius is listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel.
- The team includes 1,500+ people with hundreds of engineers specializing in hardware, software and AI R&D.
- Company culture characteristics: Fast moving, Bold thinking, Constant growth, Meaningful impact, Trust and real ownership, Opportunity to shape the future of AI.
- Nebius is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.
- Accommodations are available during the application process upon request.
- Originally posted on Himalayas