Picogrid delivers integrated systems for modern missions, connecting sensors, platforms, and operators across land, sea, air, and space. Backed by Bessemer.
About the role
As Picogrid's first Site Reliability Engineer you 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.
What they're looking for
- 3+ years of experience as an SRE or related roles
- Deep Kubernetes operations experience: node lifecycle, workload scheduling, StatefulSets, graceful drains, and live cluster debugging
- Experience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high signal-to-noise ratio alerting rules
- You are a competent and experienced incident responder practicing methodical evidence-first triage, blameless postmortems, and turning incidents into durable guardrails
- Production Terraform or OpenTofu experience
- Fluent in AWS including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and account and workload hardening
More about this role
Who we are
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.
As Picogrid's first Site Reliability Engineer you 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.
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