Site Reliability Engineer

Picogrid, Inc.; El Segundo (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

401(k) with employer matching

Full health coverage (medical, dental,

Vision insurance

Relocation assistance

Unlimited PTO

11 paid holidays per year

Paid parental leave

Lunch provided in-office

Free EV charging at HQ

Unique office in El Segundo

Job summary

Picogrid, Inc. is looking for its first Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability across cloud and edge, including observability, incident response, and edge device management. You will help build practices to ensure mission-critical systems remain available in challenging environments.

You will work with DevSecOps to stand up new infrastructure and support scrappy, fast-paced development with a strong on-call culture and robust guardrails.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as an SRE or related role.
• Deep Kubernetes operations experience including node lifecycle and live cluster debugging.
• Experience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high signal-to-noise ratio alerting rules.
• Competent incident responder with evidence-first triage and blameless postmortems.
• Production Terraform or OpenTofu experience.
• Fluent in AWS including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and hardening.
• Experience managing high availability database deployments.
• IoT or edge fleet operation experience.
• Comfortable operating in scrappy, fast-paced environments and turning ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own, define and drive reliability SLIs and SLOs for cloud deployments.
• Own, define and drive reliability SLIs and SLOs for edge devices in remote/contested areas.
• Own the observability stack and dashboards, with versioned configs and guarded alert rules.
• Participate in on-call and incident response with blameless postmortems.
• Encode reliability into infrastructure as code.

Skills

Kubernetes operations

Observability design

Incident response

Edge/IoT fleet operations

Cloud security best practices

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

OpenTofu

AWS IAM & networking

Job description

Picogrid is a leading venture-backed defense technology company founded to bridge the decades-long gap between modern technology and the critical demands of national security. Today, we're building the essential infrastructure to unify sensors, autonomy, and operators with our technology deployed in active operations around the world. Our mission is to deliver an operational advantage to secure the United States and its allies.

About the Role

As Picogrid's first Site Reliability Engineer you will own production reliability across cloud and edge, from observability and incident response through node lifecycle, stateful workloads, and a fleet of hardware edge devices in the field. You will help build and define the systems, processes and best practices that ensure Picogrid's systems can be relied upon by our warfighters in even the toughest battlefield conditions. You will work with engineers to build a strong on-call culture where issues are root caused swiftly, and ensure our alerting and monitoring have exceptional coverage and signal-to-noise ratio.

Security is a shared responsibility across all our DevSecOps roles, and as part of a scrappy startup team you will be expected to help stand up new infrastructure and other related DevSecOps tasks as needed.

Responsibilities

Own, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for cloud deployments

Own, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for our edge devices deployed in remote and sometimes contested areas

Own the observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry, with dashboards versioned in git and alerting rules checked in alongside the code they watch

Participate in on-call and incident response: log-first troubleshooting, blameless postmortems, and follow-up hardening

Encode reliability into infrastructure as code

Required Qualifications

3+ years of experience as an SRE or related roles

Deep Kubernetes operations experience: node lifecycle, workload scheduling, StatefulSets, graceful drains, and live cluster debugging

Experience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high signal-to-noise ratio alerting rules

You are a competent and experienced incident responder practicing methodical evidence-first triage, blameless postmortems, and turning incidents into durable guardrails

Production Terraform or OpenTofu experience

Fluent in AWS including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and account and workload hardening

Experience managing high availability database deployments

IoT or edge fleet operation experience

Comfortable operating in scrappy, fast-paced environments, and turning ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions

You optimize for providing value early in projects and short iteration cycles

Preferred Qualifications

GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated or air-gapped environment experience

Constrained edge hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson platforms (AGX Thor, Orin Nano), including shared CPU and GPU memory and thermal constraints

Overlay or mesh networking operations: Nebula, WireGuard, Tailscale, or similar

Standing up SLO and error-budget tooling (sloth, Pyrra, or equivalent) from scratch

Active security clearance

Base salary range: $170,000 - $195,000 per year. Base salary is just one part of your total compensation package at Picogrid.

Significant stock options with a high potential upside as an early-stage company

401(k) with employer matching

Full health coverage (medical, dental, and vision insurance)

Relocation assistance provided (if applicable)

Unlimited PTO (two-week minimum) and 11 paid holidays per year

Paid parental leave for both parents

Lunch provided when working in-office and a fully stocked kitchenette

Free EV charging at the HQ

Unique office in El Segundo, CA stocked with quality coffee, snacks, and craft beer

Export Control Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

Picogrid is committed to providing a professional work environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.