Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer – Federal
- Salary
- $159,000 - $230,000
- Level
- Lead
- Visa
- Not offered
Not stated in the posting: work type.
Open. First seen 3 October 2026.
About the role
C3 AI's standard text
C3 AI (NYSE: AI), is the Enterprise AI application software company. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that enable the digital transformation of organizations globally, and C3 Generative AI, a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the enterprise. Learn more at: C3 AI
C3 AI is seeking a Senior/Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Federal to join our team in Tysons, VA or Redwood City, CA.
This role requires US Citizenship. Active US Government Security Secret clearance or higher is required (Top Secret or higher is preferred).
Responsibilities:
- Work with Federal customers to design and implement customized installations of the C3 AI Platform that meet unique access and security requirements of Federal environments
- Maximize system uptime and availability, ensuring functional and performance SLAs
- Establish end-to-end monitoring and alerting on all critical aspects
- Solve complex problems for critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
- Initiate and lead scripting and automation to streamline system updates and upgrades
- Set up critical infrastructure, tools, and framework to streamline the deployment cycle
- Work cross-functionally with Services and Engineering teams
- Travel to customer site (up to 50%)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in a Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM), or comparable area of study
- An active U.S. Government security clearance (Top Secret preferred)
- Demonstrated experience in deploying, managing, and operating scalable and fault-tolerant Kubernetes-based infrastructure in AWS and Azure clouds; on-premise deployment experience preferred
- Expertise in Linux Operating Systems, Networking, and Database concepts
- Expertise in cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services, Azure, and GCP
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code configurations such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
- Experience in Ruby, Bash, or Python; to automate and monitor systems
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills
- Experience supporting as a DevOps or sys admin for commercial SaaS solutions. Customer facing experience is a plus.
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.
C3 AI provides excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package and generous equity plan.
California Base Pay Range
C3 AI's standard text
$159,000—$230,000 USD
C3 AI is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of any legally protected characteristics, including disabled and veteran status.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Ansible · Bash · Puppet · Ruby
Rare in C3 AI's other 46 open postings.
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
AWS · Azure · GCP · Kubernetes · Linux · Python · Terraform
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
In most of C3 AI's ads
Generative AI
Named in most of its open postings, whatever the role.
73% of this description is written for the role. The rest is C3 AI's standard text, folded away below.
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The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 17 open in Engineering. 3 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in June: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Generative AI (17 of 17), Agile (12 of 17), Java (12 of 17), JavaScript (10 of 17), Python (10 of 17), Git (7 of 17), Machine Learning (6 of 17)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Associate Site Reliability Engineer/Site Reliability Engineer posted Oct 8
- Software Engineer, Full Stack - Applications posted Oct 1
- Technical Program Manager, Release Management - C3 Agentic AI Platform posted Sep 22
- Platform Full-Stack Engineer, New Grad 2027 posted Sep 14
- Security Engineer - Federal (FieldOps) posted Sep 2
- Senior Software Engineer - Platform posted Jul 16
- Senior Quality Engineer, AI and Automation posted Jul 8
- Lead Software Engineer - Generative AI posted Jul 7
- Senior Software Engineer - Generative AI posted Jul 7
- Senior Software Engineer, Agentic AI Platform posted Jul 6
- Release Manager, Engineering posted Mar 24
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform - Data + AI (Back-End) posted Jan 7
- Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Applications posted May 30
- Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack - Applications posted Nov 19
- Lead Software Engineer, Full-Stack - Applications posted Mar 5
- Lead/Senior Software Engineer, Full-Stack – AI Studio posted Jun 22
From the team and dates on C3 AI's own job board.
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