SRE Tech Lead

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About Our Team
Lenovo is building
Quantum
, a next‑generation hybrid AI platform that spans Windows, Android, and cloud. As part of this vision, we are expanding the reliability engineering organization that powers
Qira
, Lenovo’s cross‑device Personal AI.
We are looking for
Senior Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
to help us build and evolve the foundational reliability, observability, and operations capabilities that ensure Qira is fast, safe, and dependable for millions of users.
This role may support one of several teams within the SRE organization (e.g., Observability, Operations, or Service Reliability), depending on your strengths and interests.
Qira isoperatingwith the
speed, ownership, and creative latitude of a startup
—yet supported by the scale, resources, and technical depth of Lenovo. We are building new systems, new tooling, and new operational models from the ground up, and we are doing so with clarity, intention, and high engineering standards.
Location:
Open to remote work in the US. The preferred work location is Chicago, IL.
What You Might Work On
As a Senior SRE, you maybe responsible fora subset of the following, depending on team placement and skill alignment:
Reliability Performance Engineering

• Improving the availability, scalability, and performance of distributed systems acrossdevice, edge, and cloud.
• Defining or refiningSLIs, SLOs, and error budgetsfor critical services.
• Leading initiatives to remove single points of failure, improve resilience, and reduce operational risk.

Operational Excellence

• Participating in on‑call rotations and contributing to incident response, triage, and post-incident reviews.
• Developing automation, runbooks, and self‑healing systems to reduce alert noise and MTTR.
• Enhancing operational readiness and supporting incident prevention programs.

Observability Insight

• Designing or improving observability systems usingOpenTelemetry,Grafana, and modern signal pipelines.
• Building dashboards, analytics, and alerting that illuminate system health and AI service behavior.
• Ensuring telemetry is reliable, actionable, and tied to real‑world outcomes.

Deployments Change Safety

• Improving reliability of CI/CD workflows, including phased rollouts, canaries, shadow testing, and safe rollback mechanisms.
• Contributing to the evolution of deployment tooling fordevice+edge+cloudhybrid systems.

Systems Design Collaboration

• Influencing architectural decisions by injecting reliability, observability, and operational considerations early in design.
• Collaborating with AI/ML engineers, platform engineers, firmware teams, and product partners to deliver robust, dependable user experiences.

Basic Qualifications

• 10+ yearsof experience inSite Reliability Engineering, Production Engineering, DevOps, or large‑scale distributed systems operations
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Strong experience runningproduction distributed systemsat scale
• Proficiencyin at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Java, C++)
• Strong understanding ofLinux systems, networking fundamentals, and system performance tuning
• Experience with monitoring/observability (metrics, logs, tracing)
• Hands‑on experience with cloud environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Experience in incident management, on‑call rotations, and postmortem processes

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience withAzurecloud services
• Experience withOpenTelemetryfor end‑to‑end instrumentation
• Strong familiarity withGrafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, or similar tools
• Experience supportingAI/ML systems, model serving, or data‑intensive workloads
• Background with hybrid architectures (device + edge + cloud)
• Experience improving deployment reliability and progressive delivery systems
• Passion for automation, reliability engineering, and reducing operational friction

What Success Looks Like

• Systems become more observable, reliable, and predictable.
• Incidents are resolvedquickly, andfollow‑up improvements prevent recurrence.
• Alerting becomes moreaccurate, actionable, and trusted.
• Deployments become safer and more consistent.
• Teams move faster because reliability foundations are strong and intuitive.

The base salary budgeted range for this position is $190K - $230K. Individuals may also be considered for bonus and/or commission.
Lenovo’s various benefits can be found on www.lenovobenefits.com.
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