Site Reliability Engineer

Matternet

. Define and track service-level objectives for services supporting live operations and set reliability baselines .

Posted 10/17/2026full-timeMountain View • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $160,000 - $205,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with a focus on improving system resilience, monitoring, and incident response. Proficient in cloud infrastructure management, automation, and cross-functional collaboration to enhance operational efficiency.

Highest-signal resume keywords

AWSKubernetesInfrastructure-As-CodeMonitoring And AlertingIncident Response

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Hard Skills

Production Systems OperationsProgramming Or Scripting LanguagePostgreSQL OperationsRoot-Cause AnalysisAutomation

Soft Skills

Technical CommunicationCross-Functional Collaboration

Tools & Technologies

PrometheusGrafanaTerragruntGruntworkKafkaMQTT

Industry Keywords

IoTTelemetryUAVAerospaceLogistics

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudGrafanaIoTKafkaKubernetesPostgresPrometheus

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and track service-level objectives for services supporting live operations and set reliability baselines
Own and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across production systems
Build and participate in an on-call rotation, lead incident response, and run post-incident reviews
Improve resilience of core systems, including databases, Kubernetes, messaging, and multi-AZ availability
Automate infrastructure and operational work with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD
Collaborate with cloud, onboard software, operations, and safety teams on system design, deployment, and operations

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or backend roles operating production systems, including on-call responsibility
Strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and containers
Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience
Experience building monitoring and alerting with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language
A track record of incident response, root-cause analysis, and turning incidents into durable fixes
Clear technical communication and cross-functional collaboration
Experience with Terragrunt or Gruntwork
Experience operating Kafka, MQTT brokers, or other messaging systems
Experience with PostgreSQL operations, including upgrades, replication, and backup and recovery
Knowledge of security practices for cloud infrastructure
Experience with IoT/telemetry, fleet, robotics, or other systems with hardware in the loop
UAV, aerospace, logistics, or other operationally critical domain experience
Experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate development

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Life insurance
Disability coverage
Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
Unlimited paid time off
Company holidays
401(k) plan