Picogrid
Site Reliability Engineer
El Segundo, CA
No sponsorship$170k-$195kDetected 17 hours ago
Node.jsGitAWSKubernetesTerraformPrometheusGrafanaSite Reliability EngineeringCybersecurityIncident Response
About the role
- Security is a shared responsibility across all our DevSecOps roles, and as part of a scrappy startup team you will be expected to help stand up new infrastructure and other related DevSecOps tasks as needed.
Responsibilities
- Own, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for cloud deployments
- Own the observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry, with dashboards versioned in git and alerting rules checked in alongside the code they watch
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as an SRE or related roles
- You are a competent and experienced incident responder practicing methodical evidence-first triage, blameless postmortems, and turning incidents into durable guardrails
- To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
Nice to have
- GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated or air-gapped environment experience
- Constrained edge hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson platforms (AGX Thor, Orin Nano), including shared CPU and GPU memory and thermal constraints
- Overlay or mesh networking operations: Nebula, WireGuard, Tailscale, or similar
- Standing up SLO and error-budget tooling (sloth, Pyrra, or equivalent) from scratch
- Active security clearance
Skills
- Experience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high signal-to-noise ratio alerting rules
- Production Terraform or OpenTofu experience
- Fluent in AWS including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and account and workload hardening
- Experience managing high availability database deployments
- IoT or edge fleet operation experience
- Comfortable operating in scrappy, fast-paced environments, and turning ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions
Compensation
- Unlimited PTO (two-week minimum) and 11 paid holidays per year
- $170,000 - $195,000 per year.
- Base salary is just one part of your total compensation package at Picogrid.
Benefits
- Significant stock options with a high potential upside as an early-stage company
- Full health coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance)
- Paid parental leave for both parents
Company info
- Picogrid is a leading venture-backed defense technology company founded to bridge the decades-long gap between modern technology and the critical demands of national security.
- Today, we're building the essential infrastructure to unify sensors, autonomy, and operators with our technology deployed in active operations around the world.
- Our mission is to deliver an operational advantage to secure the United States and its allies.
Equal opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Active security clearance
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