3 months ago
El Segundo, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$170k - $195k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own, define, and drive reliability SLIs and SLOs for cloud deployments.
- Own, define, and drive reliability SLIs and SLOs for edge devices deployed in remote and contested areas.
- Own the observability stack using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry, with dashboards and alerting rules versioned in git.
- Participate in on-call and incident response, including evidence-first troubleshooting, blameless postmortems, and follow-up hardening.
- Encode reliability into infrastructure as code.
- Help establish infrastructure, DevSecOps practices, and a strong on-call culture.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of experience as an SRE or in related roles.
- Deep Kubernetes operations experience covering node lifecycle, workload scheduling, StatefulSets, graceful drains, and live cluster debugging.
- Experience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high-signal alerting rules.
- Experienced incident responder who practices methodical evidence-first triage, blameless postmortems, and durable incident guardrails.
- Production experience with Terraform or OpenTofu.
- Fluency in AWS, including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and account and workload hardening.
- Experience managing high-availability database deployments.
- Experience operating IoT or edge fleets.
- Preferred experience with GovCloud, FIPS, regulated or air-gapped environments, constrained NVIDIA Jetson edge hardware, overlay or mesh networking, or SLO and error-budget tooling such as sloth or Pyrra.
- An active security clearance is preferred.
- Applicants must meet stated U.S. Government export-control eligibility requirements or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations.
Benefits
- Base salary range of $170,000-$195,000 per year, excluding other compensation components.
- Significant stock options.
- 401(k) with employer matching.
- Full medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Relocation assistance if applicable.
- Unlimited PTO with a two-week minimum and 11 paid holidays per year.
- Paid parental leave for both parents.
- Lunch provided when working in-office and a stocked kitchenette.
- Free EV charging at the El Segundo, California headquarters.
- Office amenities include coffee, snacks, and craft beer.
Tech Stack
Categories
Site Reliability
About Picogrid
Picogrid builds hardware and software to integrate mission-critical systems, connecting sensors, unmanned platforms, and command-and-control tools into a single operational picture. Defense and industrial customers use its platform to unify control of autonomous assets and stream data across land, sea, air, and space operations; the company sells devices and enterprise software and services. Picogrid is privately held and headquartered in El Segundo, California, with backing from Silicon Valley investors.