OpenArt

Technology

SeniorPlatform&ReliabilityEngineer

$300–400k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer at OpenArt. Skills: Platform Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Distributed Systems. Define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs. Participate in on-call rotation”

What You'll Achieve.

Scale to next stage; Scale systems to millions

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotation

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5+ years production systems, Software engineering skills, Cloud-native systems experience, Observability and reliability practices, Resilient systems design, Communicate technical tradeoffs, Operate in ambiguous environments

Nice to Have

Building internal platform abstractions, Improving reliability metrics, Reducing infrastructure cost, Startup or high-growth environment

What You'll Do.

Define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs

Participate in on-call rotation

Improve incident response

Lead blameless postmortems

Improve system resilience

Build and maintain observability

Strengthen deploy safety

Contribute to infrastructure architecture

Evaluate serverless patterns

Adopt containerized approaches

Improve cost visibility

Improve cost efficiency

Act as technical contributor

Improve engineering practices

Improve system design

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with product engineers; Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Technical tradeoffs

Process & Methodology

Prioritization, Roadmap planning

Full Job Description

🧑🏼 💻 Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer 🎨 About OpenArt OpenArt is an AI Storytelling and Visual Creation Platform used by millions worldwide. We’re building the next generation of creative tools powered by cutting-edge AI, enabling anyone to create videos, visuals, characters, and stories with unprecedented speed and imagination. We believe the future of creativity is AI-native, and we're shaping that future. 🚀 Why Join OpenArt - Small team, massive surface area, senior engineers own real systems, notslices. - Ship at real scale, your work goes to millions of users, fast. - Founder-led engineering culture, both founders are technical and deeplyinvolved in product and architecture. - AI-native product, you’ll design how cutting-edge AI models are exposed asreal user experiences. - High ownership, low process, we value judgment, clarity, and speed overbureaucracy. - Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer 1 - 7-10X growth in revenue for the past 2 years. Now you’ll play a critical role inhelping the company scale to the next stage. 🎯 About the Role We’re looking for a Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer to help design, scale, and improve the reliability of our infrastructure, from architectural decisions to hands-on implementation, observability, and cost optimization. This is not a traditional ops or DevOps role. You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, backend services, and developer tooling, making pragmatic decisions that balance product velocity, system reliability, and cost efficiency—in a fast-moving, AI-native environment. You’ll partner closely with product engineers to evolve the platform that powers OpenArt, contributing to key decisions around infrastructure architecture, improving multi-provider AI reliability, and helping us scale systems to millions of users—while raising the overall engineering bar. 🛠 What You’ll Do - Define and operationalize SLOs/SLIs across critical user journeys (generation, editing, payments/cred

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