Site Reliability Engineer

vannevarlabs; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision Insurance

Remote-friendly culture (US)

Unlimited PTO

Wellness & home-office stipends

Parental leave & family planning

Job summary

vannevarlabs is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, health, and deployment automation for a defense-oriented AI platform. The role is hands-on, focusing on telemetry, incident response end-to-end, and maturing SRE practices to operate at scale in secure environments.

Responsibilities include monitoring dashboards, leading incident response, building observability tooling, and automating pipelines with AWS, Terraform/Pulumi, and Python/Bash. U.S.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Hands-on experience monitoring production systems and incident response.
• Strong communication skills during live troubleshooting.
• Experience with Prometheus/Grafana/Loki, Datadog, or comparable observability tools.
• Knowledge of AWS and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages, plus agile Scrum.

Responsibilities

• Monitor dashboards and telemetry to detect health issues and reliability risks.
• Own debugging and incident response from alert to resolution, incl. escalation.
• Build and improve logging, monitoring, and observability tooling.
• Develop and maintain platform health, scaling, and capacity planning.
• Automate build and deployment pipelines and enable secure, high-availability delivery.
• Identify bottlenecks and create self-service automation to improve speed and reliability.
• Communicate system status and post-incident learnings clearly to teammates.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

On-call

Observability

AWS

IaC (Terraform/Pulumi)

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Datadog

Terraform

Pulumi

Job description

Role overview

The Site Reliability Engineer owns the reliability, health, and deployment automation of a defense-oriented AI platform that supports mission-critical decision-making. This is a hands-on role focused on watching system telemetry, responding to incidents end-to-end, and maturing SRE practices so the platform can operate reliably at scale in secure environments.

Responsibilities

• Monitor dashboards and telemetry to detect health issues, performance degradation, and reliability risks before they elevate into incidents.
• Own the debugging and incident response process from first alert through resolution, deciding when to investigate further and when to do escalation?
• Build and improve logging, monitoring, and observability tooling that visualizes the state of the platform.
• Develop and maintain platform health, scaling, and capacity planning practices.
• Improve and automate build and deployment pipelines, and help build a secure, high-availability delivery pipeline.
• Identify bottlenecks in engineering workflows and create self-service automation that makes the team faster and more reliable.
• Communicate system status, trade-offs, and post-incident learnings clearly to teammates and stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Hands-on experience monitoring production systems and running incident response, including on-call rotation and post-mortems.
• Strong communication skills, especially the ability to stay clear and organized during live troubleshooting.
• Experience with the Prometheus/Grafana/Loki stack, Datadog, or comparable enterprise observability tools.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, or other scripting languages, plus comfort working in an agile scrum environment.
• U.S. Citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance; ability to work on-site in San Diego, CA.

Nice to have

• Defining and tracking SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Crafting CI/CD pipelines and automation, and using Docker or other containerization tooling.
• Working in AWS GovCloud, modern web service architectures, relational databases, or Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.

Benefits and work setup

• Health, dental, and vision insurance.
• 100% remote-first culture with flexible work from anywhere in the U.S., plus shared workspace access.
• Unlimited paid time off and competitive holiday schedules.
• Monthly wellness, mental health, and home-office stipends, plus family planning assistance.
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty, fully paid parental leave, and child/pet care reimbursement during travel.