Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Gridware
ci/cd pipelines
kubernetes
argocd
terraform
kafka streaming
observability
You will also play a key role in observability and platform reliability, building and maintaining monitoring and logging solutions with tools like Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus to ensure system performance and resilience. The successful candidate will work closely with our Cloud Security Engineer to enforce security standards, implement best practices, and ensure compliance across the infrastructure stack. This is a highly collaborative position where you’ll partner with engineering teams to deliver reliable environments, automate deployments, and improve developer velocity while staying ahead of modern DevOps and cloud-native practices.
We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering our modern, cloud-native applications. In this role, you will design and implement scalable and secure platforms on AWS, leveraging Kubernetes (EKS) and ArgoCD for GitOps-driven deployments. You’ll be responsible for building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, managing event streaming with Amazon MSK, and maintaining reliable relational databases on RDS. You will own our Infrastructure as Code strategy with Terraform and drive best practices around security, identity management (IdP integrations), and cost optimization.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines usingGitHub Actions (GHA), ensuring fast, reliable, and automated software delivery.
- Manage and optimize Kubernetesclusters (EKS) and deploy applications using ArgoCD with GitOps best practices.
- Manage identity and access across platforms with IdP integration (Okta, Auth0, or similar).
- Build and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms using Amazon MSK for high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance, cost, and reliability using observability tools like Grafana and Loki.
- Define and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS,MSK, S3, VPC …).
terraform
kubernetes
argocd
kafka
grafana
aws
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Familiarity with Databricks o rML Ops pipelines for data and model deployment.
- Ability to debug complex production issues across infrastructure, deployment, and networking layers.
- Strong understanding of networking, security best practices, and IdP-driven access control.
- Deep knowledge of Kubernetes administration and GitOps tools like ArgoCD.
- Expertise in running and maintaining distributed systems such as Kafka on MSK and relational databases (RDS).
- Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Grafana,Loki, Prometheus, or similar).
- Knowledge of multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments and container security tools.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation and pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions).
- 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, with production experience in AWS infrastructure management.
- Experience with Terragrunt
Paid parental leave
Commuter allowance
“Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees.
Company-paid training
Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered)
Alternating day off (every other Monday)
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$26.4M Series A
Funding Round
Secured significant investment from notable firms including Sequoia, Lowercarbon, and Fifty Years.
70% Outage Reduction
Service Improvement
Customers experienced a dramatic decrease in the duration of power outages thanks to Gridware's technology.
10,000+ Poles
Deployment Scale
The system has been installed across a vast network spanning thousands of poles and miles of power lines.
7× Revenue Growth
Financial Achievement
The company experienced rapid expansion and success in its first year of operation.
- Founded by a former lineman and two Berkeley engineers to revolutionize power grid awareness.
- Flagship Gridscope device provides edge analytics and alerts even during outages.
- Technology integrates multiple types of sensing to detect hazards like fallen limbs.
- After a pilot with PG&E, expanded operations across North America.
- Physical tests include extreme conditions like live wire cutting to optimize hazard detection.
- Combines solar-powered, ruggedized sensors with a cloud-independent analytics system.
- Passion, innovation, and technology align to modernize the power grid.
- Pioneering ‘Active Grid Response’—immediate detection, precise localization, detailed identification, outage monitoring.
- Developed in partnership with utilities—focused on working alongside linemen.
- Built by a lineman for linemen—understands the rigor and commitment required in the field.
- Relentlessly committed to giving crews the right tools to get the job done.
1,000+ miles & 10K+ poles
Gridscope Deployment Scale
Expanded Gridscope sensor deployment covers over 1,000 miles of power lines and 10,000 poles, enhancing wildfire risk mitigation efforts across multiple states.
70% Outage Reduction
Improved Grid Reliability
Gridscope technology has been shown to significantly reduce outage durations by over 70%, enhancing power grid stability and wildfire prevention.
- Technology deployed across five U.S. states to reduce wildfire risk via early detection of vegetation and fallen-line hazards.
- Continuous environmental stressor measurement (e.g., vibrations from falling branches) enables predictive maintenance and environmental hazard mitigation.
