Platform SRE - Scale Kubernetes, Cloud Infra & Reliability

Specter; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Specter is hiring a Platform Site Reliability Engineer to own the health, reliability, and scalability of the cloud platform behind our connected sensor fleet. You will operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure, manage cloud resources with Terraform, strengthen observability, and support safe deployments across teams.

You’ll collaborate with application, AI, embedded systems, and fleet teams on AWS and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience diagnosing production systems.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production, including networking, storage, resource management, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience using Terraform to manage production cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with AWS, including IAM, networking, compute, storage, and EKS.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, subnets, and routing.

Responsibilities

• Reactive - Triage & Recovery: Debug production issues across Kubernetes clusters, Linux systems, AWS, networking, and workloads; Lead incidents from detection through recovery with cross-team coordination; Participate in on-call rotations and ensure durable fixes.
• Systems Builder - Close the Loop: Build, operate, and improve our Kubernetes platform and AWS infrastructure; Manage production infrastructure with Terraform, including reusable modules, automated validation, and safe change workflows; Reduce toil through automation and improved deployment tooling, CI/CD, and developer workflows.
• Observability Owner - Platform Visibility: Design and improve observability with logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting; Define service-level indicators and close telemetry gaps; Develop runbooks and incident-response procedures.

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

Networking

Scripting

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Specter is hiring a Platform Site Reliability Engineer to own the health, reliability, and scalability of the cloud platform behind our connected sensor fleet. You will operate Kubernetes-based infrastructure, manage cloud resources with Terraform, strengthen observability, and support safe deployments across teams.

You’ll collaborate with application, AI, embedded systems, and fleet teams on AWS and Kubernetes.