Site Reliability Engineer at Rebellion Defense - Washington, DC / Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). As an SRE, you will be tasked with the reliability and operation of our production environments. SREs are tasked with ensuring teams within the company receive help maintaining software at scale, as well as help designing and developing software for scale. SREs are expected to engage with the product teams to ensure the delivery of our software is as seamless as possible.

These position is based out of our Washington D.C. or Chicago Illinois office locations. An active clearance or ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance will be required.

We look for a track record of the following:

• Coming alongside high energy engineering teams to enable the adoption of best practices to enable the scalability and reliability of deployed software,
• Defined architecture and built services at scale on public infrastructure such as AWS and Azure,
• Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating high scale production services,
• Experience facilitating the definition and implementation of SLIs and SLOs,
• Understanding how to carefully spend error budget to handle regular deployment of large changes to production,
• Deep experience in Linux operating systems, and systems engineering,
• Comfort delivering critical software in Go and Python,
• Willingness to debug problems across the stack,
• Comfortability with working on underspecified problems and are capable of rapidly learning and iterating on solutions,
• Experience building the wrong system enough times to avoid the common pitfalls, whether building something personally or advising others.

You might be a good fit if you:

• 5+ years of relevant SRE experience in the tech industry,
• demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security and experience supporting web application architecture,
• experience working with a variety of storage systems, application architectures, compute infrastructure and network management systems,
• experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating high scale production service,
• defined architecture and built services at scale on public infrastructure such as AWS and Azure, proven knowledge at least one higher-level language (eg. Python and Golang),
• The ability and desire to build and learn new systems with new technologies.

Rebellion is a well-capitalized technology start-up firm that is passionate about defining and delivering modern, life-changing software products to the US Department of Defense (DoD), the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), and their allies. At Rebellion we believe in operating what we own, we deliver all of our products as managed services, this allows our product teams to maintain operational ownership across all deployments. Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting co-workers.

Compensation includes meaningful equity ownership, competitive salaries, full medical coverage, disability and life insurance, and transit reimbursement.

An Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Rebellion Defense is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. Rebellion Defense does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state, and local law.

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