Controls and Systems Software Engineer
About The Position
General Matter is enriching uranium in America. Our mission is to restore our country’s ability to make nuclear fuel. Our fuel will help power AI, manufacturing, and other critical industries. It will power our next generation of reactors. Ultimately, it will power our national ambitions. We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and we are backed by top tier investors. Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production. We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability and transparency. About This Role We are seeking a highly capable DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate the software systems underpinning uranium enrichment R&D and production infrastructure. This role is foundational to our reliability, safety, and developer velocity. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining observability, alerting, and developer productivity systems, and for ensuring that critical internal and production services are correctly instrumented and monitored. We are only interested in candidates with strong fundamentals, sound judgment, and the ability to operate with rigor in a production environment where failures matter.
Requirements
- Strong fundamentals in web service development and distributed systems
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, DNS, TLS/certificate management, and HTTP
- Experience operating and debugging production systems
- Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and incident response
- Ability to write clear, maintainable code and automation scripts
- Demonstrated ownership, attention to detail, and sound technical judgment
- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with modern observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling at scale
- Experience supporting safety-critical or high-reliability systems
- Strong debugging skills across application, OS, and network boundaries
- Prior on-call experience in a production environment
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain observability and alerting systems across critical services and infrastructure
- Ensure all production and internal services are properly instrumented with metrics, logs, and traces
- Own and maintain developer productivity tools, CI/CD systems, and internal platforms
- Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents with urgency and discipline
- Lead incident reviews and drive long-term reliability improvements
- Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil and improve system resilience
Benefits
- In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
11-50 employees
