Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Location
New York
Workplace
On-site
Compensation
$120k – $180k + equity

About this role

We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with up to 4 years of experience to own and build critical cloud infrastructure at an early-stage company working with cutting-edge aerospace, defense, and manufacturing customers. You'll be the first dedicated SRE on the team – designing, scaling, and automating systems with high agency and full end-to-end ownership. This is a greenfield opportunity to architect the path from AWS to on-prem deployments, support customer cloud environments, and improve observability across the platform. You should be a quick learner who thrives in restricted, regulated environments and is excited to make tough architectural decisions independently.

What you will be doing

Owning infrastructure end-to-end – designing, building, and scaling cloud and on-prem systems as the sole SRE

Architecting the migration path from AWS to on-prem and air-gapped environments for defense and federal customers

Deploying and supporting customer-specific cloud environments, ensuring the platform runs reliably across multiple tenants

Building observability and monitoring to improve signal from existing infrastructure and drive proactive reliability

Automating and improving current CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code practices, and deployment workflows

What happens next

Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.

Confirm the fit

A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.

I pitch you to the company

I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.

A meeting lands on your calendar

When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.

Culture & values

High-trust, high-agency environment where people are given real ownership

Trust employees to use their judgment, move quickly, and take responsibility for outcomes

Culture of stepping up and solving problems in front of the team

Challenge each other openly

Adapt quickly as a team

High bar held for themselves and the team

Deep-rooted culture of people who genuinely care about the mission and each other

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