Site Reliability Engineer (Intern)

 Posted 24 days ago
     
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AI Summary

Define and improve reliability practices including monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production systems. Collaborate with engineering teams to automate operational workflows and ensure system observability and resilience.

About the Role

We’re looking for an SRE / Reliability Engineering Intern who wants to own how real systems stay up—not just respond when they break.

You’ll work on defining and improving reliability practices across production systems, including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and resilience. This means operating in an environment where systems are evolving quickly, and reliability needs to be built—not inherited.

You’ll collaborate closely with engineering and infrastructure teams to ensure systems are observable, resilient, and continuously improving. Your work will directly impact uptime, performance, and user experience.

If you enjoy thinking in systems, debugging complex issues, and preventing problems before they happen, this role will push you to grow fast.


What You Will Do
  • Help define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core systems

  • Set up and tune monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

  • Participate in incident response, retrospectives, and follow-ups

  • Contribute to capacity planning and resilience testing

  • Automate repetitive operational workflows using scripts or tools

  • Work with engineering and infra teams on reliability improvements

  • Document runbooks, reliability practices, and incident learnings


What We’re Looking For
  • Familiarity with Linux and basic system operations

  • Exposure to Kubernetes or container-based systems

  • Basic understanding of monitoring and observability concepts

  • Comfort with scripting (Python, Bash, or similar)

  • Ability to debug issues across systems and services

  • Willingness to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments


Founding Mindset
  • You think in terms of user-perceived reliability, not just dashboards

  • You ask “what does good reliability look like?” before adding metrics

  • You take ownership of uptime and graceful degradation

  • You balance speed of change with system stability

  • You proactively identify reliability gaps before they cause incidents


Bonus
  • Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry

  • Exposure to incident management or on-call workflows

  • Experience with resilience testing or chaos engineering

  • Familiarity with tracing and structured logging


What Success Looks Like

Within 4–6 weeks, you should be able to:

  • Own monitoring and alerting for a subset of services

  • Reduce noisy alerts and improve signal quality

  • Contribute to incident retrospectives with actionable insights

  • Improve reliability, visibility, or response time in a measurable way


What You’ll Get
  • Hands-on experience building reliability practices from the ground up

  • Direct collaboration with founders and core engineering teams

  • Real ownership beyond a typical SRE internship

  • A portfolio of dashboards, runbooks, and system improvements

  • A strong pathway into SRE, platform, or production engineering roles


Who This Is Not For
  • If you want predictable systems with no incidents to handle

  • If you avoid ambiguity or cross-team problem solving

  • If you prefer rigid, siloed environments with predefined processes


Who Will Thrive Here
  • Builders who want to actively own system reliability

  • Engineers who think in terms of end-to-end systems

  • Calm debuggers of intermittent and complex failures

  • High-agency individuals who care about keeping systems running reliably


About the Company

We’re building the speech intelligence layer for Southeast Asia—turning real-world, accented, code-switched speech into structured, usable outputs for businesses.

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