Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering

WHO WE ARE Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 33 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company. Vultr Cares - Excellent Medical Benefits w/ 100% company paid premiums for employee only plan + 100% company paid dental & vision premiums - 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4% with immediate vesting - Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year - 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan - Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year & 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year - $500 first year remote office setup + $400 each following year for new equipment - Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month - Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month - Company paid Wellable subscription Join Vultr Our Engineering team at Vultr is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Core Cloud Engineering to report to the Director of Core Cloud Engineering. This role demands deep expertise in large-scale distributed systems, infrastructure automation, and production operations of hypervisor platforms and the control plane. The ideal candidate will combine hands-on systems engineering with a focus on reliability, scalability, and observability, ensuring Vultr’s cloud services remain performant and resilient for our 1.5 million users. Key Responsibilities - Production Control Plane Operations: Operate and scale Vultr’s control plane, ensuring availability, correctness, and performance across global datacenters. - Hypervisor & Infrastructure Reliability: Design, implement, and maintain automation to manage hypervisor fleets (KVM, QEMU, libvirt) and supporting infrastructure at scale. - Networking & Systems Automation: Develop tooling and automation for Open vSwitch (OVS), BGP routing, and other networking components to ensure resilient and self-healing network operations. - Performance & Reliability Tuning: Continuously analyze and improve system performance across compute, storage, and network layers, with an emphasis on reducing toil and eliminating single points of failure. - Observability & Incident Response: Implement advanced monitoring, logging, and tracing solutions (Grafana, Sentry, SumoLogic) while leading incident response to minimize impact and drive postmortem culture. - CI/CD & Configuration Management: Maintain and evolve infrastructure pipelines (GitLab CI/CD, Puppet) to enable safe, fast, and reliable changes to both control plane and hypervisor infrastructure. - Collaboration: Work closely with Software Engineers, Network Engineers, and Product teams to align platform reliability with business and user needs. - Documentation & Standards: Produce clear technical documentation for runbooks, operational procedures, and automation frameworks to improve team efficiency and reliability standards. - Mentorship & Leadership: Coach and mentor team members in best practices for site reliability, incident handling, automation, and low-level Linux systems debugging. Qualifications - Proficiency in PHP with strong scripting and automation skills. - Experience running large-scale distributed systems and control plane infrastructure in production. - Strong background in hypervisor technologies (libvirt, QEMU, KVM) and Linux systems administration. - Expertise in networking protocols and tools, particularly BGP and Open vSwitch (OVS), with automation experience. - Deep knowledge of observability and monitoring frameworks