Senior SRE: AI-Ready Energy Grid Reliability

GridCARE; Redwood City (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Health insurance

Lunch provided

Hybrid schedule

Access to partners

Mission-driven team

Job summary

GridCARE seeks a Senior SRE to own reliability, scalability, and observability of production systems. You’ll collaborate with platform and data engineering to keep high-throughput, data-intensive services available for utilities and data center operators.

You will design infrastructure on AWS with Terraform and Kubernetes, build robust monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, and automate pipelines and self-healing systems. Hybrid work is available in a fast-moving startup.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, and cloud platforms (AWS Preferred).
• Strong scripting/programming ability (Python, Bash).
• Observability Experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Track record of running on-call for production systems and leading incident response.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions) and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Gitops concepts and tooling (ArgoCD/Flux).
• Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database reliability.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar) with meaningful SLOs/SLIs.
• Automate away toil — deployment pipelines, capacity management, self-healing systems.
• Partner with engineering on architecture reviews to catch reliability and scalability risks before they ship.
• Manage database and data pipeline reliability for large-scale, real-time grid data processing.
• Drive security and compliance best practices across infrastructure.

Skills

Kubernetes

Terraform/IaC

AWS

Python

Bash

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

GitHub Actions

On-call / incident response

CI/CD pipelines

Networking & distributed systems

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

GridCARE seeks a Senior SRE to own reliability, scalability, and observability of production systems. You’ll collaborate with platform and data engineering to keep high-throughput, data-intensive services available for utilities and data center operators.

You will design infrastructure on AWS with Terraform and Kubernetes, build robust monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and Datadog, and automate pipelines and self-healing systems. Hybrid work is available in a fast-moving startup.