Senior Site Reliability Engineer

GridCARE•Redwood City, CA

4d•$180,000 - $230,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We're looking for a Senior SRE to own the reliability, scalability, and observability of our production systems. You'll work closely with platform and data engineering to keep high-throughput, data-intensive services running at the availability our customers (utilities, data center operators) require.

Requirements

5+ years in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
Deep experience with Kubernetes, Terraform/IaC, and cloud platforms (AWS Preferred)
Strong scripting/programming ability (Python, Bash)
Observability Experience (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
Track record of running on-call for production systems and leading incident response
Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Github Actions) and infrastructure automation
Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database reliability
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving startup environment with ambiguity

Nice To Haves

Experience with data-intensive or real-time processing systems
Background in energy, climate tech, or critical infrastructure
Experience scaling infrastructure through hypergrowth

Responsibilities

Design and operate infrastructure on AWS using Terraform and Kubernetes
Build monitoring, alerting, and observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or similar) with meaningful SLOs/SLIs
Automate away toil — deployment pipelines, capacity management, self-healing systems
Partner with engineering on architecture reviews to catch reliability and scalability risks before they ship
Manage database and data pipeline reliability for large-scale, real-time grid data processing
Drive security and compliance best practices across infrastructure