Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead – Developer Experience & CI Reliability Job Listing at AMD in San Jose, CA (Job ID 80037-en-us)

Description

WHAT YOU DO AT AMD CHANGES EVERYTHING 

At AMD, our mission is to build great products that accelerate next-generation computing experiences—from AI and data centers, to PCs, gaming and embedded systems. Grounded in a culture of innovation and collaboration, we believe real progress comes from bold ideas, human ingenuity and a shared passion to create something extraordinary. When you join AMD, you'll discover the real differentiator is our culture. We push the limits of innovation to solve the world's most important challenges—striving for execution excellence, while being direct, humble, collaborative, and inclusive of diverse perspectives. Join us as we shape the future of AI and beyond.  Together, we advance your career.  

The Role
As a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead, you will elevate the reliability and operational maturity of our Kubernetes-based Continuous Integration (CI) and Developer Experience platforms. You will establish measurable reliability standards, strengthen incident management practices, and reduce operational toil through systemic improvements. This role owns the reliability foundation for our CI infrastructure and developer environments, ensuring they scale sustainability as the platform grows.

The Person

The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and CI/CD systems, paired with a strong reliability mindset. You are comfortable debugging complex distributed systems, defining and operating service level objectives (SLOs), and translating reliability signals into durable operational improvements. You combine technical leadership with cross-team influence, driving reliability improvements through hands-on execution and clear engineering tradeoffs.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish measurable reliability standards (SLOs/SLIs) for CI and Developer Experience services and drive adoption across teams.
• Evolve existing on-call practices into a scalable, well-defined reliability model that scales platform growth.
• Elevate the operational maturity of Kubernetes-based CI infrastructure by identifying systemic failure patterns, implementing structural fixes, and standardizing resilient CI/CD workflows to reduce toil and improve reliability.
• Partner with DevOps and platform teams to improve ownership clarity and first-line Kubernetes debugging capabilities.
• Promote reliability engineering best practices and mentor engineers to build a culture of operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or Platform Engineering roles supporting production systems.
• Strong hands-on experience operating and debugging production Kubernetes environments at scale.
• Deep experience designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting CI/CD systems. (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
• Demonstrated ability to define and operate SLOs/SLIs, using reliability signals to drive sustainable operational improvements and shape engineering priorities.
• Strong cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to lead reliability improvements through hands-on technical expertise and influence across teams.

Preferred Experience

• Experience enhancing observability and alerting practices in production environments, including dashboards, metrics and logs; familiarity with distributed tracing is a plus.
• Experience with GPU-enabled Kubernetes clusters (scheduling, device plugins, resource management); familiarity with Slurm-based environments is a plus.
• Background working with developer experience or large open-source CI/CD workloads.

Benefits offered are described:  AMD benefits at a glance.

AMD does not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services. AMD and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity, inclusive employers and will consider all applicants without regard to age, ancestry, color, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, race, religion, political and/or third-party affiliation, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.   We encourage applications from all qualified candidates and will accommodate applicants' needs under the respective laws throughout all stages of the recruitment and selection process.

AMD may use Artificial Intelligence to help screen, assess or select applicants for this position.  AMD's “Responsible AI Policy” is available here.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.