Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Site Lead

Parasail

. Build the European engineering team by recruiting, hiring, and developing engineers .

Posted 9/29/2026full-timeRemoteSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in building and leading engineering teams, with a strong focus on production infrastructure, Kubernetes, and automation. Capable of translating company priorities into actionable roadmaps while fostering a culture of technical quality and collaboration.

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Engineering Team LeadershipKubernetes Infrastructure ImprovementProduction Service ReliabilitySoftware Automation for InfrastructureClear Communication Across Teams

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Hard Skills

Linux FundamentalsNetworking KnowledgeStorage ManagementContainerizationDebugging Across BoundariesMulti-Tenant Platform DevelopmentDistributed Data SystemsIncident Response ManagementTechnical Architecture GuidanceCapacity Expansion Automation

Soft Skills

Judgment in PrioritizationCollaborationAccountabilityEngineer Growth MentorshipEffective Handoffs

Tools & Technologies

KubernetesAutomation ToolsMulti-Region InfrastructureBare-Metal InfrastructureModel Serving Systems

Industry Keywords

Production InfrastructureDistributed SystemsEngineering CultureIncident ResponseService Reliability

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsKubernetesLinux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build the European engineering team by recruiting, hiring, and developing engineers
Translate company priorities into a focused roadmap and deliver work from design through production
Contribute to architecture, review designs and code, and work directly on important technical problems
Improve Kubernetes infrastructure for provisioning, networking, storage, and deployment across providers and regions
Improve isolation, failover, observability, and recovery
Establish sustainable incident response and turn production lessons into stronger systems
Automate capacity expansion, deployments, and maintenance
Establish clear ownership, documentation, and effective handoffs across regions and time zones
Shape engineering culture around technical quality, accountability, collaboration, and engineer growth

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience leading engineering teams responsible for production infrastructure or distributed systems
Track record of hiring and developing strong engineers, setting priorities, and delivering meaningful technical outcomes
Technical depth to guide architecture, challenge assumptions, and contribute directly when needed
Experience building and operating reliable services, with real ownership of their performance in production
Strong Linux fundamentals and practical knowledge of networking, storage, containers, and Kubernetes
Ability to write maintainable software and automation to solve infrastructure problems
Systematic approach to debugging problems across application, cluster, network, and hardware boundaries
Good judgment about prioritization, simplification, and reliability
Clear communication and experience working effectively across teams and time zones
Experience establishing or growing an engineering office or regional team is nice to have
Experience with multi-region, multi-provider, or bare-metal infrastructure is nice to have
Familiarity with GPUs, model serving, or inference systems such as vLLM or SGLang is nice to have
Experience building highly available services, multi-tenant platforms, or distributed data systems is nice to have
Experience leading teams through rapid growth while maintaining technical quality and sustainable operations is nice to have