CareerPlan

Site Reliability Engineer

Waltham, MA (WMA-01)Full-time$124k–$164k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-10
Security clearance required

Core

Frontline reliability engineer for deployed imaging systems, triaging escalations, diagnosing root causes across network/hardware/service boundaries, and building runbooks to reduce repeat incidents.

Role type

Senior IC Site Reliability Engineer (fielded systems)

Builds

Fielded camera and sensor systems for U.S. and allied military

Domain

Defense technology / Imaging systems / Field operations

Required skills

Linux troubleshooting, networking (IP/routing/VPNs), system boundary diagnosis, on-call ownership, remote troubleshooting communication, runbook creation

Preferred skills

Fielded hardware/sensor support, sensor calibration, Python/Bash scripting, NixOS, systemd service management, incident tooling (PagerDuty)

Technologies

Linux, Python, Bash, NixOS, systemd, PagerDuty

Responsibilities

Own health and uptime of deployed imaging systems; act as Tier 0 to Mission Success escalation backstop; build diagnostics and self-service tooling; reproduce and hand off software defects to engineering; feed field learnings into product observability and upgrade safety

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC