Principal SRE

About the role

Gradial is building an AI-native marketing operations system to automate execution and speed up creative workflows. As a Principal SRE, you will lead the architecture and operational health of our production platform as we scale.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Manage the scalability, reliability, and operational performance of the production environment.
• Advance our use of Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure as code.
• Establish engineering standards for system design, deployment, and operation.
• Create automation and tooling to increase developer velocity and system confidence.
• Oversee incident response, monitoring, alerting, and service readiness protocols.
• Identify and resolve scaling bottlenecks in collaboration with the engineering team.
• Guide long-term strategy regarding platform security, performance, cost, and reliability.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering with production system ownership.
• Demonstrated success operating infrastructure within high-growth, fast-paced environments.
• Extensive knowledge of container orchestration, cloud-native architecture, and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in GitOps, infrastructure as code, and modern CI/CD deployment practices.
• Strong grasp of reliability fundamentals, including tracing, logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Ability to lead through influence and drive technical decision-making across teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI or ML infrastructure, specifically model deployment, GPU provisioning, or compute-heavy workloads.
• Background in managing resilient, scalable multi-cloud environments.
• Proficiency in Python or TypeScript for building internal operational tools.

Skills & tools

• Kubernetes
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• GitOps
• Observability (Metrics, Logging, Tracing)
• Incident Response
• Python
• TypeScript

Practical notes

Salary range: $180,000 - $240,000 annually. Compensation includes base salary, potential performance bonuses, and equity. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K, paid time off, and sick leave. Candidates must demonstrate personal problem-solving skills during the interview process; over-reliance on AI-generated interview responses will lead to disqualification.