Site Reliability Engineer

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data models and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective.

With Striveworks organizations aren’t just deploying AI—they’re building systems that remain reliable adaptable and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where they’re deployed scale as workloads grow and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands increasing reliability and performance while lowering costs—and enabling confident data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Striveworks you’ll be challenged—and trusted—on day one to implement and manage all corporate systems. You’ll be exposed to and gain proficiency with a wide array of systems and infrastructure automation tools and you will be given the opportunity to build and/or incorporate additional tools. You’ll be called on to develop solutions that prevent problems from reoccurring in the future instead of simply mitigating the issue for today. You’ll be highly encouraged to automate solutions to reduce or eliminate “toil.”

Your day-to-day will include:

• Maintaining and developing infrastructure (as code) within both private (OpenStack) and commercial (AWS Azure GCP) cloud environments
• Maintaining and developing configuration management automation for Windows laptops and Linux servers
• Providing user support for all corporate systems

This position offers a hybrid/on-site environment at our office in northwest Austin TX. 

In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust. 

Collectively we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance we geek out about the potential of our contributions and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally we value taking ownership having agency and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 4+ years of experience in any IT-related field
• Experience deploying infrastructure in a cloud environment such as AWS Azure GCP or OpenStack
• Experience with virtualization and/or containerization solutions (e.g. OpenStack Kubernetes Docker VMware KVM or Hyper-V)
• Experience with Ansible or another configuration management solution (e.g. Chef Puppet or Salt)
• Programming experience in Python or other programming/scripting languages (e.g. Bash PowerShell Go Java or JavaScript)
• Due to the nature of this role candidates must be a US person (a US citizen a US national or a Green Card holder)

We’re very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Experience with automation and infrastructure as code DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines or automated security scanning (Windows and Linux)
• Understanding of US federal information system security policies including Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) NIST SP 800-171 NIST SP 800-53 NIST RMF and CMMC
• Experience with network technologies (e.g. VLANs switches routers firewalls and VPN)
• Experience working with GPUs for compute workloads
• Experience maintaining distributed/clustered systems

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $110000–$128000/year. Striveworks’ total compensation package includes a competitive base salary equity grants and cash bonuses.

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life long-term disability accident and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans 
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

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Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion belief sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression) national origin social or ethnic origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization retaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

If you require assistance or a reasonable accommodation in the application process please contact Operations at [email protected].

In compliance with federal law all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete an employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Striveworks is a participating employer in the E-Verify program.

What We Do

Striveworks helps organizations get the most out of their investment in artificial intelligence. Our proprietary technology allows organizations to rapidly build launch and maintain AI models—in hours not months. Users can deploy them in one click and keep them working even when the world changes around them. Striveworks delivers trustworthy AI-powered analysis by creating models that “learn” and stay ahead of their environment at machine speed. We make artificial intelligence work—today and in the future. In 2023 Striveworks placed on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as one of the most rapidly growing technology companies in North America. In 2025 Striveworks was honored with a Built In Best Places to Work award—for the fourth year running.

Why Work With Us

Our people and products shape solutions that directly affect the geopolitical landscape. We are cross-functional talent working together on the cutting edge to provide mission critical solutions.

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