Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Verified today
About LeoLabs
LeoLabs builds the living map of activity in space. Through a proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform, we collect millions of measurements daily on more than 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit. Our radar-powered intelligence protects billions in assets, monitors adversarial behavior, and ensures safe operations for commercial and government missions.
The Role
You will bridge development and operations, ensuring systems are scalable, reliable, and efficient. You'll be responsible for automating processes, monitoring system performance, and resolving incidents to enhance service reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable systems
- Set up monitoring tools and create incident response plans to quickly identify and resolve issues, and implement preventative measures
- Develop and maintain scripts and automation tools for deployment, monitoring, and system health checks
- Analyze system capacity and performance metrics to forecast future needs and implement scaling solutions
- Work closely with development teams to enhance product reliability and streamline the deployment process
- Create and maintain documentation for system architecture, processes, and incident reports
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide 24/7 support for critical systems
- Implement and enforce security best practices across all systems, ensuring compliance with industry standards
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related role
- Proficiency in scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Go)
- Experience with cloud services (AWS, Azure)
- Proficiency with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS)
- Proficiency in configuration management tools (Terraform, Atlantis, Terragrunt)
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, CircleCI)
- Experience with monitoring tools (Grafana, Datadog)
- Familiarity with database technologies (RDS, Aurora, PostgreSQL)
- Experience with large-scale distributed systems and microservices architecture
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to troubleshoot complex systems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to collaborate effectively across teams
- Ability to obtain a security clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI clearance
Success Milestones
Within 1 month: Complete onboarding, get familiar with engineering stack and key initiatives, understand how your role fits into the broader organization.
Within 3 months: Independently deploy infrastructure changes using Infrastructure as Code, identify key reliability risks and recommend improvements, improve dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks.
Within 6 months: Improve deployment pipelines and infrastructure provisioning, optimize infrastructure utilization and cloud costs, drive automation to reduce operational toil.
Within 12 months: Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve availability and scalability, advise on site reliability for new products and platform evolution, mentor junior engineers.
Compensation and Benefits
Base salary range: $171,000 to $192,000 plus bonus and equity. Actual base salary determined based on work location, experience, skills, and other applicable factors.
- $100 USD monthly wellness benefit
- $300 USD home office setup stipend (within first six months)
- $75 USD monthly home internet allowance
- Individual Development Fund for training and professional development
- Employee Recognition Program
- Employee Referral Program
ITAR Requirements
To conform to U.S. Government space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), you must be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.