Platform 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
Company Background
Specter's standard text
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.
Soon, we will build robots, trained on top of the data we collect, to take action in these environments as well.
Specter's standard text
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 Platform Site Reliability Engineer to own the operational health, reliability, and scalability of the cloud platform behind our connected sensor fleet.
This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of site reliability and platform engineering. You’ll operate and improve our Kubernetes-based infrastructure, manage cloud resources through Terraform, strengthen observability and incident response, and build the systems that allow our engineering teams to deploy safely and move quickly.
You’ll work primarily across our AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes environments while partnering with application, AI, embedded systems, and fleet teams. You’ll help resolve production issues when they occur—and then improve the platform so they are less likely to happen again.
Responsibilities
Reactive — Triage & Recovery
- Debug production issues across Kubernetes clusters, Linux systems, AWS infrastructure, networking, and application workloads.
- Lead incidents from detection through recovery, coordinating across teams when failures span multiple parts of the system.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and follow incidents through to durable fixes.
Systems Builder — Close the Loop
- Build, operate, and improve our Kubernetes platform and the AWS infrastructure supporting it.
- Manage production infrastructure with Terraform, including reusable modules, automated validation, and safe change workflows.
- Reduce operational toil through automation while improving deployment tooling, CI/CD, and developer workflows.
Observability Owner — Platform Visibility
- Design and improve observability into system health, functionality, and performance through logging, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and alerting across Kubernetes workloads and AWS infrastructure.
- Define meaningful service-level indicators and objectives, and close telemetry gaps before they become incidents.
- Develop runbooks, incident-response procedures, post-incident reviews, and operational readiness standards.
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.
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 · CI/CD · Kubernetes · Linux · Python · Terraform
Common in DevOps / SRE / cloud postings at any company.
78% 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
- 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
- Site Reliability Engineer posted Jul 2
- 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.
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