Site Reliability Engineer

About the company

• Matternet is building the future of delivery with autonomous drone networks that move critical goods faster, cleaner, and at lower cost
• Partners across healthcare, logistics, food, and retail

Responsibilities

• Define and track service-level objectives for services supporting live operations and set reliability baselines
• Own and improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across production systems
• Build and participate in an on-call rotation, lead incident response, and run effective post-incident reviews
• Improve resilience of core systems, including databases, Kubernetes, messaging, and multi-AZ availability
• Automate infrastructure and operational work with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD
• Collaborate with cloud, onboard software, operations, and safety teams

Requirements

• 3+ years in SRE, infrastructure, or backend roles operating production systems, including 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 durable fixes
• Clear technical communication and cross-functional collaboration
• Preferred: Terragrunt/Gruntwork, Kafka/MQTT brokers, PostgreSQL operations, cloud security practices, IoT/telemetry/robotics, UAV/aerospace/logistics domains, AI coding assistants

Conditions

• Expected starting range $160,000–$205,000 based on San Francisco Bay Area market data
• Total rewards include equity, medical, dental, vision, life, and disability coverage, FSA, unlimited PTO, company holidays, and 401(k)