Site Reliability Engineer

Role Overview

Build a strategic, production-grade observability and reliability platform for satellite and deep-space network operations. This is a greenfield/brownfield SRE role focused on creating the “nervous system” for a platform that orchestrates interconnected satellite, ground, and fleet networks.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build a centralized observability platform integrating and scaling:
  • Metrics (e.g., Prometheus)
  • Logging (e.g., Loki)
  • Distributed tracing (e.g., Tempo/OpenTelemetry)
• Define, implement, and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets to ensure services are launch-ready.
• Partner with software engineers to apply observability best practices, including:
  • standard templates and documentation
  • configuring OpenTelemetry libraries
• Automate deployment, scaling, and management of the observability stack using:
  • Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
  • GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD)
• Work with the infrastructure team to deliver deep visibility into:
  • Kubernetes clusters
  • underlying GCP and AWS environments
• Own and lead monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategy; drive proactive reliability and blameless post-mortems.

Requirements

• 4+ years in SRE or platform engineering with a focus on observability for large-scale distributed compute/network systems.
• Deep, hands-on experience building and scaling observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK, OpenTelemetry, Tempo/Jaeger, Honeycomb).
• Production experience with GCP and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and GitOps (e.g., ArgoCD).
• Strong systems programming skills with a preference for Go and Python.
• Proven experience defining and managing SLOs/SLIs/error budgets for high-availability distributed production services.

Preferred Qualifications

• Multi-cloud operations experience across GCP and AWS.
• Hands-on GitLab CI experience for CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio or Linkerd).
• Familiarity with instrumenting apps written in Go and C++.
• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Experience with JVM observability (tuning/monitoring) for Java applications.

Additional Notes

• Includes on-call responsibilities.