Lead a team of AI Infra (Systems Engineers) at Together based out of our office in Amsterdam, you and the SRE team are responsible for keeping all user-facing services and production systems running smoothly. You are a blend of a pragmatic operator and a software engineer that applies sound engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our operating environments and codebase.
You specialize in systems (operating systems, storage subsystems, networking), while implementing best practices for availability, reliability and scalability, with varied interests in algorithms and distributed systems.
Responsibilities- Be on an on-call (PagerDuty) rotation to respond to incidents that impact availability
- Manage, develop and coach the SRE Team.
- Build and run our infrastructure with Ansible, Terraform, and Kubernetes to enable scaling to a massive number of concurrent users
- Build monitoring systems to ensure the highest quality service for our customers
- Design and implement operational processes (such as deployments and upgrades)
- Debug production issues across all services and levels of the stack
- Identify improvements for the product architecture from the reliability, performance and availability perspectives
- Plan the growth of Together AI’s infrastructure
- 7+ years of professional SRE or related experience
- Ideally 2 years as a Lead SRE
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent work experience
- Expert knowledge of Ansible (roles, playbooks), Terraform, and Kubernetes
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages
- Direct experience in monitoring and observability practices
- Advanced knowledge of cloud services
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts
Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.
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Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional SRE or related experience
- Ideally 2 years as a Lead SRE
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
- Expert knowledge of Ansible (roles, playbooks)
- Expert knowledge of Terraform
- Expert knowledge of Kubernetes
- Proficiency in programming/scripting languages
- Direct experience in monitoring and observability practices
- Advanced knowledge of cloud services
- Ability to thrive in a collaborative environment with multiple stakeholders
Together AI Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for the company’s stage, with especially strong offers for technical and research roles. A posted AI researcher range reaching into the high-$200Ks alongside equity and benefits reinforces the overall pay positioning.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity is commonly included alongside base salary, giving employees ownership exposure tied to company growth. Total compensation is often framed around salary plus equity for specialized roles.
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Flexible Benefits — Job listings describe a flexible time‑off policy and hybrid or remote work options. Commuter perks and regular team events are also cited as part of the package.
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What We Do
Together AI is a research-driven artificial intelligence company. We contribute leading open-source research, models, and datasets to advance the frontier of AI. Our decentralized cloud services empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models. We believe open and transparent AI systems will drive innovation and create the best outcomes for society
