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Site Reliability Engineer

Vannevar
Location
San Diego, California
Posted
4 days ago
Department
Infrastructure Engineering
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering
  • Hands-on experience monitoring production systems and responding to incidents
  • Excellent communication skills, especially during troubleshooting
  • Experience with the PLG stack, Datadog, or other enterprise monitoring tools
  • Experience participating in an on-call rotation and contributing to post-mortems
  • Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies
Nice to have
  • Experience defining and tracking SLOs/SLIs and error budgets
  • Experience crafting CI/CD processes and automation
  • Proficient with containerization technologies like Docker
  • Experience working in AWS GovCloud
  • Experience with modern web services architectures
What the job really is

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Vannevar Labs, you will be responsible for monitoring system health, managing incident response, and improving deployment automation. Your role involves building observability tools, ensuring platform reliability, and enhancing engineering workflows. You will work closely with operational units and contribute to the overall health and scalability of the platform.

Benefits
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance
  • 100% remote first culture
  • Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
  • Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty
  • Fully paid parental leave
Things to weigh
  • Role requires U.S. Citizenship and TS/SCI Clearance
  • Position involves on-site work in San Diego, CA
  • Focus on high-side environments may imply a need for security awareness and protocols
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