Site Reliability Engineer

The role

The Site Reliability Engineer will own the operational health of a connected sensor platform. This includes managing a live fleet of edge hardware and the supporting cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Debug and triage issues across a live fleet of Linux-based sensor nodes and edge appliances.
• SSH into field hardware to diagnose, patch, and recover systems.
• Own site bring-ups end to end.
• Build and maintain fleet management systems including OTA update pipelines and device health tracking.
• Build tooling, pre-deployment checks, and root cause processes to prevent recurring issues.
• Automate toil through scripting.
• Collaborate with embedded systems and platform teams to define reliability and deployment requirements.
• Design and implement observability across edge devices and AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Build fleet-wide visibility through logging, metrics, and alerting.
• Develop runbooks, incident response procedures, and participate in on-call rotations.

Required qualifications

• Strong Linux systems administration.
• Experience with edge or on-prem hardware alongside cloud infrastructure.
• Solid networking fundamentals including DNS, firewalls, VPNs, subnets, and secure remote access.
• Scripting or programming in Python, Go, or Bash for operational tooling.
• Embedded systems experience reading firmware logs and understanding hardware-software boundaries.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes a plus)
• Deeper cloud experience (AWS infrastructure, IAM, networking, observability tooling) is a strong plus
• Rust or C experience

About the company

Specter builds video sensors with AI agents to automate the physical world. The team is small and fast growing, with members from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.