Qdrant is a cutting-edge vector database company on a mission to revolutionize how organizations manage and query unstructured data. Our open-source engine and managed cloud solutions power AI-driven search, recommendation, and data discovery at scale. We are a remote-first company, building a global team of passionate engineers to push the boundaries of database infrastructure.
As a Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer on the Cloud Operations team, you will focus on keeping Qdrant Cloud reliable, observable, and secure as usage and infrastructure complexity grow. Your primary responsibility is operational excellence: stability, incident response, and continuous improvement of production systems.
This role is operations-heavy, ideal for engineers who thrive in owning reliability and reducing operational risk at scale.
Tasks
Operate and maintain production cloud infrastructure at scale
Own Kubernetes infrastructure, networking, and deployment pipelines
Improve monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational visibility
Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and follow-up actions
Reduce operational toil through automation and better tooling
Improve reliability, security, and performance of production systems
Collaborate closely with Platform and Regions \& Clusters teams
Maintain and evolve runbooks, operational procedures, and alerts
Participate in on-call rotations and continuous reliability improvements
Requirements Must have
5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure operations roles
Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production
Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure
Experience working with AWS, GCP, or Azure
Strong understanding of monitoring, alerting, and incident management
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation tooling
Comfortable owning on-call responsibilities and production incidents
Strong operational mindset and clear communication skills
Nice to have
Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools
Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or OpenTelemetry
Exposure to security, compliance, or hardening initiatives
Scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go
Experience in SaaS, cloud, or data infrastructure environments
Benefits
Competitive salary, equity, and benefits
Fully remote setup with flexible working hours
Clear ownership of reliability and operational excellence
Opportunity to work on mission-critical customer-facing infrastructure
Strong collaboration with platform and engineering teams
If you enjoy keeping complex systems reliable and improving operations through automation and discipline, we’d love to hear from you.
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