# Member of Technical Staff, Production Site Reliability Engineer at Inferact

- Company: Inferact
- What the company does: Inferact is a startup founded by creators and core maintainers of vLLM, the most popular open-source LLM inference engine. Our mission is to grow vLLM as the world. Backed by Sequoia and Redpoint.
- Company website: https://inferact.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $400K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/inferact/ad992ead-2a9a-4694-8fca-0504354548cd
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inferact-member-of-technical-staff-production-site-reliability-engineer/

## About the role

Inferact's mission is to grow vLLM as the world's AI inference engine and accelerate AI progress by making inference cheaper and faster. Founded by the creators and core maintainers of vLLM, we sit at the intersection of models and hardware, a position that took years to build.

## What they're looking for

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, systems, infrastructure, or similar
- Hands-on experience building or operating production distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or services where reliability has meaningful user or business impact
- Strong programming or scripting ability in Python, Go, Bash, or similar, with experience building tools and automation that solve operational problems
- Experience responding to significant production incidents, including mitigation, root cause analysis, escalation, and following corrective actions through to completion
- Practical understanding of service-level objectives (SLOs), service-level indicators (SLIs), error budgets, and alerting that distinguishes user-impacting failures from noise
- Strong Linux, networking, and systems debugging fundamentals, with the ability to investigate failures across application and infrastructure boundaries

Tags: Research & Engineering