Remote SRE — Scale Real-World Freight Platform

Outpost

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 200,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Outpost is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own uptime and incident response as our platform scales. You will strengthen monitoring, automate remediation, and partner with engineering to triage alerts.

The role focuses on GCP infrastructure, database performance, and ML training reliability, with blameless postmortems and on-call participation. You’ll work with a small, high-conviction team building real software for live logistics yards, ensuring reliability as load grows and automation

Qualifications

4+ years in an SRE or backend role with production on-call ownership.
Deep experience with a major cloud provider (GCP preferred) including compute, managed databases, object storage, networking.
Experience building monitoring/alerting/observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Zabbix, Datadog, or similar).
Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Bash, or similar).
Comfortable with containerized workloads (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines.
Track record of reducing incident volume or improving reliability metrics.

Responsibilities

Own reliability targets across backend/API, worker services, applications and CV pipeline; MTTR and root-cause follow-up.
Level up monitoring/alerting and build auto-remediation to scale on-call load.
Partner with engineering to build agents that triage alerts and handle routine remediation.
Harden and optimize GCP infrastructure (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS) for cost and performance as load scales.
Own database scale and performance; tuning, read replicas, and capacity planning.
Improve reliability of ML training and monitoring infrastructure in collaboration with CV/ML teams.
Run blameless postmortems and drive fixes for root causes; participate in on-call rotation.