What you'll do
Monitor dashboards and system telemetry to detect health issues, performance degradation, and reliability risks — often before anyone else notices them.
Own the debugging and incident response process end to end, exercising good judgment about when to investigate more deeply and when to escalate.
Build logging, monitoring, and observability tooling to visualize the state of the platform and continuously mature our SRE practices.
Develop, maintain, and be responsible for overall platform health, scaling, and capacity planning.
Understand and help improve the deployment process, and automate build & deployment pipelines.
Identify bottlenecks in engineering workflows and drive improvements that make the whole team faster and more reliable.
Develop self-service tools and automation to improve engineering efficiency.
Play a critical part in implementing a secure, robust, high-availability delivery pipeline.
Communicate system status, trade-offs, and post-incident learnings clearly with teammates and stakeholders.
Qualifications
5+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering.
Hands-on experience monitoring production systems and responding to incidents — comfortable owning a debugging process and making the call on when to dig in versus escalate.
Excellent communication skills, especially the ability to stay clear and organized while troubleshooting live issues.
Experience with the PLG stack, Datadog, or other enterprise monitoring/observability tools.
Experience participating in an on-call rotation and running or contributing to post-mortems.
Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies.
Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform and Pulumi.
Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages.
Experience working in an agile scrum environment, with the ability to work independently.
Able to quickly learn new and existing technologies.
Strong attention to detail and analytical capabilities.
Willingness and ability to work on-site in San Diego, CA.
U.S. Citizenship status is required, as this position requires the ability to access U.S.-only data systems and export-controlled data.
TS/SCI Clearance required.
Additional Qualifications (Nice to haves)
Experience defining and tracking SLOs/SLIs and error budgets.
Experience crafting CI/CD processes and automation.
Proficient with containerization technologies like Docker.
Experience working in AWS GovCloud.
Experience with modern web services architectures.
Experience with relational database systems, including SQL and relational design.
Experience working with Elasticsearch/OpenSearch.
Strong collaboration and negotiation skills, with the ability to work on cross-functional projects with internal partner engineering teams.
What we offer
We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:
Health, dental, and vision insurance
100% remote first culture. You can work from anywhere in the US and all full time employees have WeWork access
Unlimited PTO including competitive vacation and holiday schedules
Lifestyle stipends - Monthly mental health, wellness & fitness stipend, in-home office setup stipend and family planning assistance
Salary top-up during military reserve duty
Fully paid parental leave
Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
Vannevar is an equal opportunity employer, and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply, even if you don't feel like you're a perfect fit. If you're passionate about contributing to our mission, we'd love to hear from you!
IMPORTANT NOTICE We are committed to protecting the privacy of all applicants. Official emails from the company will come from an @vannevarlabs.com domain. Under no circumstances will a legitimate representative from our company contact you to request passwords, financial information, or other sensitive personal data. Please be vigilant of potential scams.
