Site Reliability Engineer — Remote-First, High Impact

Vannevarlabs; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Remote-first culture

Unlimited PTO

Lifestyle stipend

Military reserve top-up

Parental leave

Travel care reimbursement

Job summary

Vannevar Labs seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, health, and deployment automation of our platform. You will monitor dashboards, detect issues, and drive incident response from first alert to resolution, making prudent trade-offs to keep systems reliable at scale.

You will build observability tooling, manage capacity planning, improve deployment pipelines, and ensure secure, high-availability delivery.

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 when troubleshooting live issues.
• Experience with the PLG stack, Datadog, or other enterprise monitoring/observability tools.
• Experience participating in an on-call rotation and post-mortems.
• Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with Terraform and Pulumi.
• Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
• Experience in an agile scrum environment.
• Able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Monitor dashboards and system telemetry to detect health issues and reliability risks.
• Own the debugging and incident response process end to end.
• Build logging, monitoring, and observability tooling.
• Develop and maintain overall platform health, scaling, and capacity planning.
• Understand and improve deployment processes and automate pipelines.
• Identify bottlenecks in engineering workflows and drive improvements.
• Develop self-service tools to improve engineering efficiency.
• Contribute to a secure, high-availability delivery pipeline.
• Communicate system status and learnings clearly with teammates.

Skills

SRE/DevOps experience

Incident response

Communication

On-call experience

Python

Bash

Agile/Scrum

Learning agility

Analytical thinking

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

Docker

SQL

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Job description

Vannevar Labs seeks an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to own the reliability, health, and deployment automation of our platform. You will monitor dashboards, detect issues, and drive incident response from first alert to resolution, making prudent trade-offs to keep systems reliable at scale.

You will build observability tooling, manage capacity planning, improve deployment pipelines, and ensure secure, high-availability delivery.