Platform Site Reliability Engineer

The role

You will own the operational health, reliability, and scalability of the cloud platform behind a connected sensor fleet. You will operate and improve Kubernetes-based infrastructure and manage cloud resources through Terraform.

What you will do

• Debug production issues across Kubernetes clusters, Linux systems, AWS infrastructure, networking, and application workloads.
• Lead incidents from detection through recovery.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.
• Build, operate, and improve the Kubernetes platform and AWS infrastructure.
• Manage production infrastructure with Terraform.
• Reduce operational toil through automation.
• Improve deployment tooling, CI/CD, and developer workflows.
• Design and improve observability through logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting.
• Define service-level indicators and objectives.
• Develop runbooks, incident-response procedures, post-incident reviews, and operational readiness standards.

Required qualifications

• Strong Linux systems knowledge and experience diagnosing production systems.
• Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production, including networking, storage, resource management, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Strong experience using Terraform to manage production cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with AWS, including IAM, networking, compute, storage, and EKS.
• Solid networking fundamentals, including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs, subnets, and routing.
• Experience building operational tooling and automation using Python, Go, Bash, or a similar language.
• Strong ownership during incidents and the ability to turn ambiguous failures into lasting improvements.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting connected devices, edge computing, or on-premises infrastructure alongside cloud systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, or Kubernetes multi-cluster environments.
• Familiarity with cloud and Kubernetes security practices.
• Experience reading firmware logs or low-level Rust or C code when debugging across the edge-to-cloud boundary.
• Experience with NixOS and managing Nix-based development infrastructure.

About the company

Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world. They build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents and plan to build robots trained on the data they collect.