SRE Intern

About Albert Invent
Albert Invent is a cutting-edge AI-driven software company headquartered in Oakland, California, on a mission to empower scientists and innovators in chemistry and materials science to invent the future faster. Every day, scientists in 30+ countries use Albert to accelerate R&D with AI trained like a chemist, bringing better products to market, faster

Job Description

Assist in building and maintaining Albert Invent’s core platform to support reliability and scalability. Work with the Platform and SRE teams to learn automation, observability, and CI/CD best practices through hands-on projects

Responsibilities:

• Act as a passionate representative of the Albert product and brand.
• Work closely with Platform/Product Engineering and other stakeholders to plan and deliver core platform capabilities that enable scalability, reliability, and developer productivity.
• Work with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team on the shared full stack ownership of a collection of services and/or technology areas.
• Understand the end-to-end configuration, technical dependencies, and overall behavioral characteristics of all the micro-services.
• Responsible for the design and delivery of the mission-critical stack, with a focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of automation and orchestration principles.
• Act as an ultimate escalation point for complex or critical issues that have not yet been documented as Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Very strong coding expertise in Python or Node.js.
• Familiarity with observability stack including centralized log management, metrics & tracing.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like CircleCI and performance testing using K6.
• A desire to bring more automation and standards to an Engineering organization.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and learn from peers and leaders

Good to Have:

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, etc.).
• Familiarity building internal developer platforms (IDPs) or reusable frameworks for engineering teams.
• Exposure to ML infrastructure or data engineering workflows

Why Join Albert Invent

• Joining Albert Invent means becoming part of a mission-driven, fast-growing global team at the intersection of AI, data, and advanced materials science.
• You will collaborate with world-class scientists and technologists to redefine how new materials are discovered, developed, and brought to market.
• The culture is built on curiosity, collaboration, and ownership, with a strong focus on learning and impact.
• You will enjoy the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI tools that accelerate real-world R&D and solve global challenges from sustainability to advanced manufacturing while growing your careers in a high-energy environment
  For more details, please feel free to refer to www.albertinvent.com