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Site Reliability Engineer US - San Francisco at Near Inc.
Job Description
The NEAR AI engineering team is developing decentralized and confidential machine learning infrastructure to power user owned AI. We currently focus on building infrastructure to enable private and confidential inference that works across different compute providers, as well as a blockchain-based coordination layer that incentivizes computer providers to join the decentralized inference network.
You will own various components and drive critical decisions throughout their life cycles, including architecture, implementation, and maintenance. You will collaborate with highly knowledgeable and skilled colleagues who are passionate about solving hard problems that can disrupt the industry.
What You'll Be Doing:- End-to-end infrastructure ownership (for handling telemetry data, for performing testing, etc)
- Design and implementation of infrastructure components that manage clusters of GPU with special configurations
- Performance tuning and optimizations
- Create and maintain runbooks that support the on-call rotation
- Participate in the on-call rotation.
- Support code releases and delivery
- Plan and implement infrastructure cost and security strategies
- Plan and implement effective CI/CD Pipelines to facilitate development processes
- Agility to quickly learn new programming languages and technologies
- Ability to write clean and efficient code
- Ability to transform ambiguous problems into tangible solutions or prototypes
- Experience with software concurrency or parallelism
- Experience in building, operating, and scaling Cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, etc)
- Experience with data visualization and observability tooling (Grafana, Graphite, Zabbix, etc)
- Detail-oriented mindset with a focus on setting priorities and progressing towards objectives
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience with NEAR or other blockchain internals
- Experience with GPUs
- Experience with Trusted Execution Environments
- Experience debugging and troubleshooting complex concurrent systems
- Professional experience with Rust
onsite, San Francisco office
Typical mid-level pay: $133k for Software Developers nationally
Senior roles pay 64% more than entry—experience is well rewarded.
Strong candidate leverage
High demand and responsive wages. Negotiate confidently on all fronts.
Who this leverage applies to
Where to negotiate
Likely Possible Unlikely
Use competing offers and timing to your advantage.
Does this path compound?
Both the field and your earnings can grow significantly.
Good time to build expertise—demand will chase supply.