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Site Reliability Engineer

Picogrid· Engineering
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El Segundo, CA$170k - $195kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Picogrid is seeking its first Site Reliability Engineer to own production reliability across cloud and edge, develop observability and incident response practices, and help build scalable DevSecOps processes in a fast-paced startup environment.

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

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
  • 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

Skills

Required:SRE fundamentalsKubernetes operationsObservability and monitoringInfrastructure as codeAWSEdge/IoT fleet operations

Benefits

  • Base salary range: $170,000 - $195,000 per year
  • Significant stock options with high upside
  • 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 in-office and fully stocked kitchenette
  • Free EV charging at the HQ
  • Unique office in El Segundo, CA stocked with coffee, snacks, and craft beer
Last updated Sep 27, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Picogrid

Integrated Systems for Modern Missions

Picogrid delivers integrated systems for modern missions, connecting sensors, platforms, and operators across land, sea, air, and space.

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