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Salary: USD 160,000 - 205,000 / annual
Matternet is building autonomous drone networks for delivery of critical goods across healthcare, logistics, food, and retail. The company is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to join the platform team responsible for the backend, data, and infrastructure services that power the delivery network.
In this hands-on, safety-critical role, you will own the reliability of systems supporting live flight operations. Your responsibilities include defining and tracking service-level objectives (SLOs) for production services, building and maintaining monitoring and alerting infrastructure, leading incident response efforts, and running effective post-incident reviews. You'll improve system resilience across databases, Kubernetes, messaging systems, and multi-AZ availability. The role involves automating infrastructure and operational work using infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices, and collaborating with cloud, onboard software, operations, and safety teams on how systems are built, deployed, and run.
You'll work with AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana), and messaging/data systems that connect the fleet to the cloud. This includes participating in an on-call rotation and leading incident response when production issues occur.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required:
- 3+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or backend roles operating production systems with on-call responsibility
- Strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and containers
- Hands-on infrastructure-as-code experience
- Experience building monitoring and alerting with tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
- Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language
- Track record of incident response, root-cause analysis, and converting incidents into durable fixes
- Clear technical communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Preferred:
- Experience with Terragrunt or Gruntwork
- Experience operating Kafka, MQTT brokers, or other messaging systems
- PostgreSQL operations experience (upgrades, replication, backup/recovery)
- Knowledge of cloud infrastructure security practices
- Experience with IoT/telemetry, fleet, robotics, or systems with hardware in the loop
- UAV, aerospace, logistics, or operationally critical domain experience
- Experience using AI coding assistants to accelerate development
