Site Reliability Engineer
Vannevar Labs · San Diego, California · Remote
CHECKED 20H AGO
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At a glance
Highlights
- Own platform reliability for AI systems supporting live combat operations.
- Support 125 deployments spanning every branch and combatant command.
- Build observability tooling to catch health issues before they become incidents.
What they offer
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 100% remote-first culture with WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO including vacation and holiday schedules
- Monthly mental health, wellness and fitness stipend, in-home office setup and family planning assistance
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
Ideal candidate
A calm, mission-driven SRE who stays clear under pressure, exercises sharp judgment on when to dig in versus escalate, and cares about keeping critical systems reliable at scale.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering
- Hands-on experience monitoring production systems and owning debugging and incident response
- Excellent communication skills with ability to stay clear while troubleshooting live issues
- Experience with PLG stack, Datadog, or other enterprise monitoring/observability tools
- Experience with on-call rotation and running or contributing to post-mortems
- Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform and Pulumi
- Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages
- Willingness and ability to work on-site in San Diego, CA
- U.S. Citizenship required for access to U.S.-only and export-controlled systems
- TS/SCI clearance required
- remote policy
- Remote-first - work from anywhere in the US
Lab profile
About Vannevar Labs
Builds AI systems for the Department of War's most consequential missions.
What they build
- Core platform
- Collection Platform
- Security Platform
Known for
- Forward-deployed engineering with mission owners
- Rapid fielding for combat operations
Key facts
- 125 deployments across branches and combatant commands
- 9,000+ users on fielded product