Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Instrumental, Inc.•Washington, NV

1d•$175,000 - $205,000

About The Position

Instrumental builds a manufacturing acceleration platform that captures production-line data and uses AI to help electronics manufacturers improve yield, throughput, and ramp. The platform collects, transforms, and presents manufacturing data to technical users in real time. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will help deploy and operate Instrumental’s commercial SaaS platform on public cloud infrastructure. The role focuses on performance, scalability, reliability, infrastructure, automation, and operational workflows. The position calls for someone who can independently drive projects, create clarity in a fast-changing startup environment, and introduce AI tools and processes into development and operations. Access to items and data developed under U.S. government contracts is required; dissemination controls limit access to U.S. citizens. Employees are expected to follow company engineering, security, access-control, and privacy policies and promptly report suspected security incidents or policy violations.

Requirements

At least 5 years of DevOps or SRE experience deploying and operating commercial SaaS platforms on public cloud infrastructure; AWS is preferred.
Expert knowledge of Linux, shell, containerization, Kubernetes, infrastructure as code (Terraform preferred), monitoring, logging, and APM tools.
Ability to take initiative and independently drive impactful projects to completion efficiently.
Comfort with ambiguity, a fast pace, and frequent pivots in a startup environment, and a track record of creating clarity for teams.
Experience introducing and integrating AI tools or processes into development and operations workflows.
Demonstrated ability to set, iterate on, and measure KPIs to maintain performance, reliability, and efficiency.
U.S. citizenship, due to access restrictions for items and data developed under U.S. government contracts.
Strong focus on system performance, scalability, and reliability, including latency, uptime, and scale.
Experience building and operating distributed systems, with knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networks, and operating systems.
A tendency to automate repetitive or error-prone work.
Dependability, trustworthiness, ownership of problems, and follow-through.