12 months ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and build Aalyria’s centralized observability platform for metrics, logging, and distributed tracing.
- Define and manage SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for core production products.
- Partner with software engineers to establish observability best practices, templates, documentation, and OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
- Automate deployment, scaling, and management of the observability stack using infrastructure as code and GitOps.
- Provide visibility into Kubernetes clusters and GCP and AWS environments.
- Lead monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategy, including proactive reliability practices and blameless post-mortems.
- Participate in on-call responsibilities.
Requirements
- At least 4 years of experience in an SRE or platform engineering role focused on observability for large-scale distributed compute or network systems.
- Hands-on experience building, scaling, and managing observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Tempo, Jaeger, and Honeycomb.
- Experience using observability tools for performance analysis and debugging of complex distributed systems.
- Strong production experience with Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and GitOps principles, including ArgoCD.
- Proficiency in a systems programming language, with a strong preference for Go and Python.
- Experience defining and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for highly available distributed systems.
- Preferred experience with multi-cloud environments involving GCP and AWS, GitLab CI, Istio or Linkerd, Go and C++ application instrumentation, JVM observability, and Java-based applications.
- An active Secret clearance or higher is preferred.
- Applicants must satisfy applicable U.S. export-control access requirements or be eligible and reasonably likely to obtain authorization.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, comprehensive health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), paid time off, and equity options.
- Professional development and career advancement opportunities.
- Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid remote/in-office schedules.
- Collaborative, supportive, and inclusive workplace.
- The role includes on-call responsibilities and access to export-controlled information under ITAR/EAR requirements.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Aalyria
Aalyria builds networking technologies for operating high-throughput, moving networks across land, sea, air, and space. Its products include Tightbeam, an ultra-high-speed free-space optical communications system, and Spacetime, a platform-as-a-service for modeling, planning, and orchestrating dynamic networks for commercial and government operators. Privately held and headquartered in Livermore, California, Aalyria originated from technologies developed at Alphabet and serves aerospace, telecommunications, and national security markets.