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Salary: USD 171,000 - 192,000 / annual
LeoLabs is building a living map of activity in space through a proprietary global radar network and AI-enabled analytics platform. The company collects millions of measurements daily on over 25,000 objects in low Earth orbit (LEO), providing radar-powered intelligence for space domain awareness, space traffic management, and satellite operations for commercial and government missions.
We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic team and bridge the gap between development and operations. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable and reliable systems that support mission-critical aerospace and national security applications.
Key responsibilities include:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable and reliable systems
- Set up monitoring tools and create incident response plans to quickly identify and resolve issues, implementing 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
Within your first year, you will independently deploy infrastructure changes using Infrastructure as Code, identify key reliability risks and recommend improvements, improve dashboards and alerts, optimize deployment pipelines and cloud costs, drive automation to reduce operational toil, lead cross-functional initiatives to improve availability and scalability, serve as a key advisor for site reliability in new product developments, and mentor junior engineers.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience
- 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or related role
- Proficiency in scripting or programming languages (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: Active TS/SCI clearance
