Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

• Design and evolve reliability architecture for distributed and cloud-hosted systems
• Define and implement SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning
• Partner with platform and application teams to design systems for reliability, scalability, and operability
• Identify and mitigate systemic reliability risks across infrastructure, applications, services, and data pipelines
• Establish reliability patterns that support autonomy, simulation, and mission-critical cloud workloads
• Lead incident response processes, including on-call rotations, escalation paths, and post-incident reviews
• Conduct root cause analysis for complex production incidents and drive long-term corrective actions
• Improve operational readiness through runbooks, automation, resilience testing, and production-readiness reviews
• Reduce operational toil through tooling, automation, and process improvements
• Help build a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across production systems
• Design, implement, and maintain observability systems for metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and service health
• Ensure services and data pipelines are observable, debuggable, and performant in production
• Drive performance analysis and tuning across infrastructure, application, and service layers
• Improve alert quality, reduce noise, and ensure operational signals are actionable
• Partner with engineering teams to define meaningful reliability and performance metrics
• Build automation to improve system reliability, deployment safety, and recovery processes
• Partner with DevOps and Cloud Platform teams on CI/CD reliability, rollout strategies, and safe deployment patterns
• Support and improve Kubernetes-based environments and containerized workloads
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code practices and platform automation
• Help define operational standards for cloud infrastructure, deployment workflows, and production services
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure secure and resilient system design
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, backup strategy, and resilience testing
• Maintain strong operational practices around access control, secrets management, change management, and production access
• Support secure operations for systems that may serve defense, autonomy, or mission-sensitive use cases

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in SRE, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, or related roles
• Strong experience operating large-scale distributed production systems
• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems fundamentals
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Programming or scripting experience in Go, Python, or similar languages
• Experience designing and operating observability systems for production environments
• Proven ability to lead incident response and drive reliability improvements
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams
• Ability to operate calmly and effectively under pressure
• Must be a U.S. Citizen and eligible to obtain a U.S. Government security clearance if required

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Python
• Go

Benefits

• 100% Employer paid Health, Dental and Vision Insurance for you and your families
• Life Insurance (Employer Paid)
• Ability to participate in the companies 401k program (Matching)
• Unlimited PTO policy with an enforced 2 week minimum
• Equity Package
• Work / Home Office Stipend
• Global Entry
• 16 Week Paid Parental Leave
• Monthly Health and Wellness Stipend