Remote SRE for High-Impact AI Platform

Vannevar Labs

San Diego (CA)

Hybrid

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

28 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Unlimited PTO

Remote-friendly culture

WeWork access

Lifestyle stipend

Parental leave

Child care reimbursement

Pet care reimbursement

Job summary

Vannevar Labs is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own platform reliability, health, and deployment automation. You will monitor dashboards, handle incidents end-to-end, and build observability tooling to mature SRE practices.

The role emphasizes careful judgment, clear communication, and collaboration across teams as the system scales for high-stakes operations. The ideal candidate has 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong scripting, IaC experience (Terraform/Pulumi), and is comfortable working

Qualifications

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 incidents and day-to-day work.
Experience with the PLG stack, Datadog, or other enterprise monitoring/observability tools.
Experience with AWS cloud technologies.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform and Pulumi.
Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
Experience working in an agile scrum environment, with the ability to work independently.
Able to quickly learn new and existing technologies.
Willingness and ability to work on-site in San Diego, CA.
U.S. Citizenship status is required, as this position requires access to U.S.-only data systems and export-controlled data.
TS/SCI Clearance required.
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.
Experience with relational database systems, including SQL and relational design.
Experience working with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
Strong collaboration and negotiation skills for cross-functional projects.

Responsibilities

Monitor dashboards and system telemetry to detect health issues, performance degradation, and reliability risks.
Own the debugging and incident response process end to end, exercising judgment on deeper investigation or escalation.
Build logging, monitoring, and observability tooling to visualize the state of the platform and mature SRE practices.
Develop, maintain, and be responsible for overall platform health, scaling, and capacity planning.
Understand and help improve the deployment process, and automate build & deployment pipelines.
Identify bottlenecks in engineering workflows and drive improvements for speed and reliability.
Develop self-service tools and automation to improve engineering efficiency.
Play a critical part in implementing a secure, robust, high-availability delivery pipeline.
Communicate system status, trade-offs, and post-incident learnings clearly with teammates and stakeholders.