Senior SRE (Search)

About the Position

We're seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 5-8 years of experience to join our team at Tavily. You will be responsible for managing Kubernetes clusters, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and maintaining observability stacks.

About the Company

Tavily is building the infrastructure layer for agentic web interaction at scale. Our API is designed to power Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and real-time reasoning in AI systems. By connecting LLMs to high-quality, trustworthy web content, we help developers build intelligent and informed agents.

Responsibilities

• Managing Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments and regions
• Owning infrastructure as code for all resources
• Maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines and GitOps-based deployments
• Maintaining and optimizing real-time data pipelines that process billions of events per day across distributed queues and stream processors
• Building out monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Debugging production issues across services
• Managing cloud costs and capacity planning
• Working closely with a small engineering team - you'd own infra, not a slice of it

Requirements

• 5-8 years in a DevOps or SRE role, working in production environments
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems, with a solid understanding of API design, reliability, and performance at scale
• Strong Kubernetes experience in a managed cloud environment
• Proficiency with infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar)
• Experience with GitOps-based deployment workflows
• Built or maintained observability stacks (logging, metrics, alerting)
• Experience handling production incidents calmly and methodically

Nice to Have

• Multi-region deployments
• Search infrastructure
• Data pipeline experience (streaming, warehousing)
• Proxy/networking infrastructure at scale

We Offer

• Health insurance: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and families.
• 401(k) plan: Up to 4% company match with immediate vesting.
• Parental leave: 20 weeks paid for primary caregivers, 12 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Remote work reimbursement: Up to $85/month for mobile and internet.
• Disability & life insurance: Company-paid short-term, long-term, and life insurance coverage.
• 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

Pay Transparency

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages. Actual compensation will be determined based on job-related factors, including experience, skills, qualifications, the level at which the candidate is hired, and geographic location, consistent with applicable law.

Base Compensation Range

$147,200-$224,000 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement

Tavily is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do 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.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

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