Site Reliability Engineer

About the RolePicogrid's first Site Reliability Engineer will own production reliability across cloud and edge, from observability and incident response through node lifecycle, stateful workloads, and a fleet of hardware edge devices in the field. You will help build and define the systems, processes and best practices that ensure Picogrid's systems can be relied upon by our warfighters in even the toughest battlefield conditions. You will work with engineers to build a strong on-call culture where issues are root caused swiftly, and ensure our alerting and monitoring have exceptional coverage and signal-to-noise ratio.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.ResponsibilitiesOwn, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for cloud deploymentsOwn, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for our edge devices deployed in remote and sometimes contested areasOwn the observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry, with dashboards versioned in git and alerting rules checked in alongside the code they watchParticipate in on-call and incident response: log-first troubleshooting, blameless postmortems, and follow-up hardeningEncode reliability into infrastructure as codeRequired Qualifications3+ years of experience as an SRE or related rolesDeep Kubernetes operations experience: node lifecycle, workload scheduling, StatefulSets, graceful drains, and live cluster debuggingExperience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high signal-to-noise ratio alerting rulesYou are a competent and experienced incident responder practicing methodical evidence-first triage, blameless postmortems, and turning incidents into durable guardrailsProduction Terraform or OpenTofu experienceFluent in AWS including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and account and workload hardeningExperience managing high availability database deploymentsIoT or edge fleet operation experienceComfortable operating in scrappy, fast-paced environments, and turning ambiguous requirements into concrete solutionsYou optimize for providing value early in projects and short iteration cyclesPreferred QualificationsGovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated or air-gapped environment experienceConstrained edge hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson platforms (AGX Thor, Orin Nano), including shared CPU and GPU memory and thermal constraintsOverlay or mesh networking operations: Nebula, WireGuard, Tailscale, or similarStanding up SLO and error-budget tooling (sloth, Pyrra, or equivalent) from scratchActive security clearance