Site Reliability Engineer
- Level
- Mid
- Work type
- On-site · San Francisco
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
Specter's standard text
Company Background
Specter's mission is to help automate the physical world.
Today, we build video sensors with state-of-the-art AI agents that answer any question, anywhere in their environments. Our systems can automatically detect and reason about any physical activity captured on camera, from security incidents (e.g. perimeter intrusion, theft, LPR), to safety monitoring (e.g. PPE detection, injured people), to operational efficiency (e.g. material tracking, congestion monitoring). We offer both long range wireless (1km range) and wired sensor variants to suit any deployment.
Our co-founders Xerxes and Philip are passionate about empowering our partners in the fast approaching world of physical AI and robotics. We are a small, fast growing team who hail from Anduril, Tesla, Uber, and the U.S. Special Forces.
The Role
We're hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to own the operational health of our connected sensor platform — spanning a live fleet of edge hardware deployed at customer sites and the cloud infrastructure behind it.
This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of ops and platform engineering. You'll drive reliability across our sensor fleet — triaging issues in the field, building the systems that prevent them from recurring, and owning the observability that keeps us ahead of problems as we scale.
You set your own priorities across all three:
Responsibilities:
Reactive — Triage & Recovery
- Debug and triage issues across a live fleet of diverse Linux-based sensor nodes and edge appliances deployed at customer sites.
- SSH into field hardware to diagnose, patch, and recover systems — often with limited remote access and incomplete information.
- Own site bring-ups end to end; be the person who gets things back online.
Systems Builder — Close the Loop
- Build and maintain fleet management systems: OTA update pipelines, device health tracking, remote diagnostics, and lifecycle tooling.
- Identify repeat fires and eliminate them — build tooling, pre-deployment checks, and root cause processes that prevent recurrence.
- Automate toil relentlessly: if you're doing something twice, you should be scripting it.
- Collaborate with embedded systems, and platform teams to define reliability and deployment requirements.
Observability Owner — Fleet Visibility
- Design and implement observability (logging, metrics, alerting) across edge devices and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
- Surface and close telemetry gaps; build fleet-wide visibility that enables data-driven reliability decisions.
- Develop runbooks, incident response procedures, and participate in on-call rotations.
Qualifications:
- Strong Linux systems administration — comfortable working over SSH in production, not just dev environments.
- Experience with edge or on-prem hardware alongside cloud infrastructure.
- Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, firewalls, VPNs, subnets, secure remote access.
- Scripting or programming in Python, Go, or Bash for operational tooling.
- Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes a plus).
- Embedded systems experience — reading firmware logs, understanding hardware-software boundaries, and reasoning about what's happening below the OS is a meaningful edge in this role.
- Deeper cloud experience (AWS infrastructure, IAM, networking, observability tooling) is a strong plus for owning the cloud side of the fleet.
- Rust or C experience — we have firmware in both; being able to read and reason about low-level code accelerates triage significantly.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Bash · IAM
Rare in Specter's other 30 open postings.
Standard for DevOps / SRE / cloud roles
AWS · Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · Python
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
76% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Specter's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Specter's other open postings on this site.
The team: Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 22 open in Engineering. 2 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in October: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Python (15 of 22), Embedded Systems (12 of 22), Linux (12 of 22), Computer Vision (8 of 22), Rust (8 of 22), Golang (6 of 22), C (5 of 22)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Optics & Camera Engineering Lead posted Oct 16
- CV/ML Camera Test Engineer posted Oct 15
- Software Engineer - Applied AI posted Aug 28
- Software Engineer — Fleet posted Aug 24
- Platform Site Reliability Engineer posted Aug 20
- Hardware Test Engineer posted Aug 5
- Hardware Test Lead posted Aug 5
- Engineering Lab Manager posted Jul 14
- Engineering Technician posted Jul 14
- Fleet Reliability Engineer posted Jul 13
- Data Operations Engineer posted May 20
- Software Engineer - Test Automation posted Mar 31
- Software Engineer - Embedded Systems posted Jan 23
- Software Engineer - Full Stack posted Jan 13
- RF Systems Engineer posted Nov 27
- Software Engineer - ML Infrastructure posted Oct 3
- Software Engineer - Systems posted Oct 3
- Software Engineer - Backend posted Oct 3
- Mechanical Engineer posted Oct 3
- Electrical Engineer posted Oct 3
- ML Research Engineer posted Oct 3
From the team and dates on Specter's own job board.
Salary context
48 other open postings titled Site Reliability Engineer state a salary: median USD 127,500 to USD 195,000 a year.
See Site Reliability Engineer salaries in San Francisco →
Similar jobs
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Infrastructure Security at MongoDB
Shares 7 skills: Rust, C, Golang… · same country - Senior Site Reliability Engineer - EPG at Okta
Shares 7 skills: Rust, IAM, Golang… · same country - Site Reliability Engineer at SpaceXSI
Shares 6 skills: Rust, Bash, Embedded Systems… · same seniority · same country - Senior Cybersecurity Solutions Engineer at Accenture Federal Services
Shares 8 skills: Rust, Bash, Golang… · same country - Software Engineer at MLabs
Shares 6 skills: Rust, Golang, Docker… · same seniority · same city - Optics & Camera Engineering Lead at Specter
Also at this company
Is this your posting and you want it taken down? Email info@careerholo.com.