# Fleet Reliability Engineer at Specter

- Company: Specter
- What the company does: Search 55M companies, 550M people and every funding or M&A event in real time—surface hidden startups, size markets and act first. Backed by Entrepreneur First.
- Company website: https://tryspecter.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-07-13
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/specter/4849bffc-5399-4fcb-83c6-ac805656b7a7
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/specter-fleet-reliability-engineer/

## About the role

Own the fleet’s reliability data pipeline end to end: telemetry aggregation, storage, and instrumentation. Drive down observability cost — own the tooling spend and cut what we pay for but don’t use.

## What they're looking for

- Strong data and software skills — Python (or Go) and SQL — and the ability to own a data pipeline end to end
- Hands-on building and tuning observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar), including their cost
- Experience operating physical or embedded device fleets at scale, and reasoning about how hardware fails in the field
- Comfortable turning messy field telemetry into trends, failure modes, and forecasts
- Fluency with databases and data modeling (PostgreSQL or equivalent), infrastructure-as-code familiarity (Terraform or similar) a plus
- Bias toward building mechanisms over doing manual work

Tags: Engineering