About the role
Who we are Picogrid is a leading venture-backed defense technology company founded to bridge the decades-long gap between modern technology and the critical demands of national security. Today, we're building the essential infrastructure to unify sensors, autonomy, and operators with our technology deployed in active operations around the world. Our mission is to deliver an operational advantage to secure the United States and its allies.
About
the Role As Picogrid's first Site Reliability Engineer you will own production reliability across cloud and edge, from observability and incident response through node lifecycle, stateful workloads, and a fleet of hardware edge devices in the field. You will help build and define the systems, processes and best practices that ensure Picogrid's systems can be relied upon by our warfighters in even the toughest battlefield conditions. You will work with engineers to build a strong on-call culture where issues are root caused swiftly, and ensure our alerting and monitoring have exceptional coverage and signal-to-noise ratio. Security is a shared responsibility across all our DevSecOps roles, and as part of a scrappy startup team you will be expected to help stand up new infrastructure and other related DevSecOps tasks as needed.
Responsibilities Own, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for cloud deployments Own, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for our edge devices deployed in remote and sometimes contested areas Own the observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry, with dashboards versioned in git and alerting rules checked in alongside the code they watch Participate in on-call and incident response: log-first troubleshooting, blameless postmortems, and follow-up hardening Encode reliability into infrastructure as code Required
Qualifications 3+ years of experience as an SRE or related roles Deep Kubernetes operations experience: node lifecycle, workload scheduling, StatefulSets, graceful drains, and live cluster debugging Experience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high signal-to-noise ratio alerting rules You are a competent and experienced incident responder practicing methodical evidence-first triage, blameless postmortems, and turning incidents into durable guardrails Production Terraform or OpenTofu experience Fluent in AWS including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and account and workload hardening Experience managing high availability database deployments IoT or edge fleet operation experience Comfortable operating in scrappy, fast-paced environments, and turning ambiguous
