Senior Data SRE Engineer (AI/ML & Substrate Platform)

Job Title: Senior Data SRE Engineer, AI/ML & Substrate Platform

Location: Redmond, WA

Worksite: Onsite/Hybrid

About WCT

WCT is a global talent solutions partner committed to delivering high-impact technology and engineering talent to some of the world’s most innovative companies. As a WCT employee, you’ll be part of a dynamic, growth-oriented culture that values collaboration, continuous learning, and excellence in execution.

Job Summary

WCT is seeking a Senior Data SRE Engineer to support large-scale data, telemetry, and AI/ML pipelines. This role combines Data Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, and production operations, with a strong focus on pipeline reliability, observability, incident management, troubleshooting, and automation.

The engineer will also serve as an onsite technical interface with engineering teams and coordinate execution with offshore Data SRE engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the reliability and operational health of production data, telemetry, and AI/ML pipelines.
• Monitor and troubleshoot pipeline failures, latency, data freshness, processing errors, and service dependencies.
• Lead production incident investigation, root cause analysis (RCA), and corrective engineering actions.
• Develop dashboards, alerts, health metrics, and diagnostic tooling for pipeline observability.
• Automate repetitive operational and troubleshooting activities using Python, SQL/KQL, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Support deployment readiness, production validation, and post-deployment monitoring.
• Identify recurring reliability issues and drive permanent engineering fixes and toil reduction.
• Coordinate technical execution with offshore Data SRE engineers.
• Communicate production health, risks, blockers, and technical issues to engineering stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 6 years of experience in SRE, Data Engineering, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, MLOps, or related areas.
• Hands-on production support experience with data and/or AI/ML pipelines.
• Strong SQL and production data troubleshooting skills.
• Strong Python and scripting/automation skills.
• Experience troubleshooting distributed data-processing systems.
• Experience with observability, telemetry, incident management, and RCA.
• Strong stakeholder communication and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Kusto/KQL and Azure Data Explorer.
• Experience with Azure Machine Learning, Databricks, Spark, or comparable AI/data platforms.
• Experience with Azure DevOps/Git and CI/CD.
• Experience supporting large-scale AI/ML inference, telemetry, or data-processing workloads.

Compensation / Salary Range: The typical pay range for this role is: USD $90,000/Yearly - $110,000/Yearly. Factors that may affect pay within or outside of this range may include but not limited to geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: Medical, dental, Vision, Life, PTO, Holidays, 401(k) benefits and ancillaries may be available for eligible WCT employees and may vary depending on the nature of your employment.

WCT will accept applications and processes offers for these roles until the role is filled.

Equal Employment Opportunity Declaration:

WCT is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.