Site Reliability Engineer 2 - Production Engineering
Core
Build resilient, highly available cloud infrastructure and observability systems for Lattice, an AI-powered autonomous command and control platform for military use.
Role type
Senior IC Site Reliability Engineer (Production Engineering)
Builds
Cloud infrastructure, observability tooling, automation, and reliability playbooks for mission-critical defense systems
Domain
Defense technology / Cloud Infrastructure / AI Systems
Required skills
Kubernetes production operations, Go/Python/Rust/Java programming, observability stack (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), distributed systems troubleshooting, incident management, SLO/error budget management, capacity planning, CI/CD deployment safety, security compliance
Preferred skills
Defense/aerospace mission-critical systems experience, chaos engineering, Kubernetes traffic management (Gateway API/Contour), GitOps (ArgoCD/FluxCD), Terraform module design, PagerDuty/Groundcover, networking fundamentals (load balancing/DNS/TLS), secrets management
Technologies
Kubernetes, AWS/Azure/GCP, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Go, Python, Rust, Java, ArgoCD, FluxCD, CircleCI, Nix, PagerDuty, Groundcover
Responsibilities
Build monitoring and alerting systems to detect reliability issues early; participate in on-call rotations and triage production incidents; contribute to blameless postmortems and systemic improvements; build shared reliability tooling and automation; manage Kubernetes patching and version risks; define and track SLOs and error budgets; partner on reliability patterns like graceful degradation; contribute to capacity planning and performance testing; create runbooks and training materials; improve deployment safety through progressive rollouts and automated testing; incorporate security best practices in production environments
Seniority
Mid-Senior, hands-on IC
