Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aalyria is a leading technology company that supplies laser communications technology and temporospatial software-defined networking platforms to the aerospace industry. The Site Reliability Engineer will build a centralized observability platform and ensure the reliability of systems critical to satellite operations, while also defining and managing service level objectives.
Responsibilities
- Help design and build Aalyria's centralized observability platform, integrating and scaling tools for metrics (e.g. Prometheus), logging (e.g. Loki), and distributed tracing (e.g. Tempo/OpenTelemetry)
- Define, implement, and manage a robust framework of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for our core products, ensuring we are launch-ready
- Partner with SWEs to implement observability best practices, develop standard templates and documentation, and configure tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry libraries)
- Automate the deployment, scaling, and management of the entire observability stack using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and GitOps principles (e.g. ArgoCD)
- Partner closely with the core infrastructure team to ensure deep visibility into our Kubernetes clusters and underlying GCP and AWS environments
- Develop and lead the company's monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategy, driving a culture of proactive reliability and blameless post-mortems
Skills
- 4+ years of experience in an SRE or platform engineering role, with a focus on observability for large-scale, distributed compute or network systems
- Deep, hands-on expertise building, scaling, and managing observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK, OpenTelemetry, Tempo/Jaeger, Honeycomb, etc.). You have proven experience using these tools to support performance analysis and debugging of complex distributed systems
- Strong production-level experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes
- Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps principles (e.g., ArgoCD)
- Proficiency in a systems programming language, with a strong preference for Go and Python for debugging and writing tooling
- Demonstrable experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for production services for high availability distributed systems
- Experience operating a multi-cloud environment, specifically GCP and AWS
- Hands-on experience with GitLab CI for CI/CD pipelines
- Working knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd
- Familiarity with instrumenting applications written in Go and C++
- An active Secret clearance, or higher, is preferred for this position
- Experience with JVM observability (tuning, monitoring) for Java-based applications
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements including hybrid remote/in-office schedules.
- Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits (401(k), dental, vision, health, life insurance), paid time off, and equity options.
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