Senior SRE at Remote - AI Infrastructure & Career Growth in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This is a high-impact senior IC role at a company that is itself the infrastructure for global remote work — which means you'll develop deep expertise in exactly the stack that's scaling fastest: Kubernetes, Terraform IaC, AWS, and AI-integrated platform reliability. These are among the most in-demand skills in the 2024–2025 SRE market.
Compensation context: The $54K–$150K USD range is geo-adjusted globally. For EMEA-based candidates, the effective salary will depend on local geo-band. Senior SREs in Western Europe typically command €80K–€120K; US-based equivalents range $140K–$180K+. The wide band reflects Remote's international pay philosophy — research your local band carefully before negotiating.
Career development signals:
- The "Remote Build" agentic AI platform is a greenfield infrastructure challenge — owning reliability here means direct influence on a strategic, high-visibility product.
- Exposure to compliance infrastructure across 100+ jurisdictions is a rare and marketable specialization combining SRE with legal/regulatory tech.
- The five-stage interview process (including a bar raiser) signals a rigorous engineering culture that values quality hires — a green flag for team caliber.
Work-life balance green flags: async-first culture, flexible PTO, explicit "life-work balance" framing (life comes first), and no mandatory meeting hours. Potential watch point: incident response is part of the role — understand on-call expectations before accepting, as SRE on-call can offset async flexibility.
Overall, this is a strong mid-to-late career move for a DevOps/SRE professional looking to work on globally significant infrastructure with a genuinely distributed team.
About Remote
Remote is solving modern organizations' biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and a future-focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.
With Innovation as one of our core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences, and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
If you are energetic, curious, motivated, and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!
The Position
Remote Build is Remote's agentic shift: as AI agents proliferate across HR and Finance stacks, they need to route through the employment infrastructure layer — labour law across 100+ countries, payroll, entity structures, the compliance rail. The infrastructure powering these integrations must be rock-solid, secure, and built for scale.
As Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Remote Build, you'll own the operational excellence and infrastructure strategy that makes Build's platform reliable, performant, and safe for customers. You'll report to the Engineering Manager and work closely with the Remote Build leadership group, product managers, engineers, and customer success to ensure every engagement scales reliably from day one.
What You'll Do
- Infrastructure as code at scale. Design, implement, and maintain infrastructure-as-code patterns using Terraform and Kubernetes that support both standard connectors and custom builds. Make it easy for engineers to deploy and operate with confidence.
- Observability and incident response. Build and maintain comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. Lead incident response efforts, conduct post-mortems, and drive continuous improvement in system reliability.
- Security and compliance in motion. Work with the Security team to embed security into every layer of Build infrastructure. Ensure compliance requirements are met across 100+ jurisdictions without creating friction for developers or customers.
- Performance and cost optimisation. Continuously optimize system performance, resource utilization, and cloud costs. Make recommendations that improve both reliability and unit economics.
- Automation and operational leverage. Identify manual operational toil and systematically eliminate it. Build tools and processes that let teams operate efficiently without scaling headcount.
- Platform reliability and developer experience. Partner with platform teams to ensure APIs, MCP, and CLI are resilient and observable. Give infrastructure feedback that shapes how the platform evolves.
What You'll Bring
- Senior-level SRE experience: Demonstrated experience in a Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or SysOps role. You have stood up and operated production systems at scale.
- Kubernetes and AWS: Deep, hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production. Solid AWS fundamentals across compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
- Infrastructure-as-code: Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC tools. You write code to define infrastructure; you don't click buttons in the console.
- CI/CD and deployment automation: Real experience setting up and operating GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar. You understand deployment strategies, rollback mechanisms, and safety nets.
- Scripting and systems knowledge: Strong bash scripting. Comfortable debugging system-level issues, reading logs, and understanding Linux kernel basics.
- Great communication: You explain complex infrastructure decisions clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. You write clear runbooks and documentation.
Nice to Have
- Experience with 1+ backend programming language (Elixir, Python, Go, Java, Node.js, etc.).
- Experience in consultancy settings.
- Container registry and artifact management (ECR, Docker Hub, etc.).
- Observability stack depth (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, or similar).
- Experience working with or scaling multi-tenant platforms.
Practicals
- You'll report to: Engineering Manager
- Team: Engineering
- Location: Anywhere in the World
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application Process
- Interview with recruiter
- Interview with hiring manager
- Infrastructure Deep Dive
- Executive interview
- Bar raiser interview
- Offer + Background Check (Veremark & Remote)
Compensation
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
The annual salary range for this full-time position is $54,000–$150,000 USD.
Benefits
Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters:
- Work from anywhere
- Flexible paid time off
- Flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- Mental health support services
- Stock options
- Learning budget
- Home office budget & IT equipment
- Budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How You'll Plan Your Day (and Life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to Apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV in PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don't have an up-to-date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it's important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines, see here.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
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