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Picogrid

Site Reliability Engineer

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Picogrid · El Segundo, CA
$170k–195kOn-siteFull-timeKubernetes · Terraform
Picogrid

Site Reliability Engineer

Picogrid · 🇺🇸 El Segundo, CA · posted today
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Base
$170,000 – $195,000
Equity
Significant stock options (no figures stated)
Remote
In-office work at El Segundo, CA HQ; no remote terms stated
On-call
Participate in on-call and incident response; no rotation schedule stated
Funding
Venture-backed; no stage or amount stated
Visa
Must be U.S. citizen, green card holder, refugee, or asylee, or eligible for State Dept authorization (export control)
Stack
Kubernetes, Terraform, OpenTofu, AWS

TL;DR

Picogrid's first Site Reliability Engineer will own production reliability across cloud and edge, including observability, incident response, node lifecycle, stateful workloads, and a field fleet of hardware edge devices. The role defines SLIs/SLOs for cloud and edge, runs the observability stack (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, OpenTelemetry), and participates in on-call. Required skills include Kubernetes operations, Terraform or OpenTofu, AWS, and IoT/edge fleet operation.

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Who we are

Picogrid is a leading venture-backed defense technology company founded to bridge the decades-long gap between modern technology and the critical demands of national security. Today, we're building the essential infrastructure to unify sensors, autonomy, and operators with our technology deployed in active operations around the world. Our mission is to deliver an operational advantage to secure the United States and its allies.

About the Role

As Picogrid's first Site Reliability Engineer you will own production reliability across cloud and edge, from observability and incident response through node lifecycle, stateful workloads, and a fleet of hardware edge devices in the field. You will help build and define the systems, processes and best practices that ensure Picogrid's systems can be relied upon by our warfighters in even the toughest battlefield conditions. You will work with engineers to build a strong on-call culture where issues are root caused swiftly, and ensure our alerting and monitoring have exceptional coverage and signal-to-noise ratio.


Security is a shared responsibility across all our DevSecOps roles, and as part of a scrappy startup team you will be expected to help stand up new infrastructure and other related DevSecOps tasks as needed.


Responsibilities

  • Own, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for cloud deployments
  • Own, define and drive our reliability SLIs and SLOs for our edge devices deployed in remote and sometimes contested areas
  • Own the observability stack: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and OpenTelemetry, with dashboards versioned in git and alerting rules checked in alongside the code they watch
  • Participate in on-call and incident response: log-first troubleshooting, blameless postmortems, and follow-up hardening
  • Encode reliability into infrastructure as code


Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience as an SRE or related roles
  • Deep Kubernetes operations experience: node lifecycle, workload scheduling, StatefulSets, graceful drains, and live cluster debugging
  • Experience designing comprehensive observability dashboards and high signal-to-noise ratio alerting rules
  • You are a competent and experienced incident responder practicing methodical evidence-first triage, blameless postmortems, and turning incidents into durable guardrails
  • Production Terraform or OpenTofu experience
  • Fluent in AWS including IAM, networking, multi-account environments, and account and workload hardening
  • Experience managing high availability database deployments
  • IoT or edge fleet operation experience
  • Comfortable operating in scrappy, fast-paced environments, and turning ambiguous requirements into concrete solutions
  • You optimize for providing value early in projects and short iteration cycles

  • Preferred Qualifications

    • GovCloud, FIPS, or other regulated or air-gapped environment experience
    • Constrained edge hardware such as NVIDIA Jetson platforms (AGX Thor, Orin Nano), including shared CPU and GPU memory and thermal constraints
    • Overlay or mesh networking operations: Nebula, WireGuard, Tailscale, or similar
    • Standing up SLO and error-budget tooling (sloth, Pyrra, or equivalent) from scratch
    • Active security clearance


    Compensation & Benefits

    • Base salary range: $170,000 - $195,000 per year. Base salary is just one part of your total compensation package at Picogrid.
    • Significant stock options with a high potential upside as an early-stage company
    • 401(k) with employer matching
    • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
    • Relocation assistance provided (if applicable)
    • Unlimited PTO (two-week minimum) and 11 paid holidays per year
    • Paid parental leave for both parents
    • Lunch provided when working in-office and a fully stocked kitchenette
    • Free EV charging at the HQ
    • Unique office in El Segundo, CA stocked with quality coffee, snacks, and craft beer



    Export Control Requirements

    To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.


    Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

    Picogrid is committed to providing a professional work environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.



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    Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy

    Picogrid is committed to providing a professional work environment free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. We are an equal opportunity employer and make all employment decisions based on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

    Compensation: $170K - $195K