Technical Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

As founding Site Reliability Engineer in the Advanced Capabilities team, you’ll design, build, and operate the simulation infrastructure that enables massive-scale autonomous-system wargaming. You’ll own the hardware-to-software stack, ensure reliable post-release validation, and prevent regressions that could impact real-time operations. You’ll work closely with development teams to keep the Simulation Center running, with a focus on stability, performance, and rapid incident response. This role blends hands-on engineering with cross-team collaboration in a cutting-edge defense tech environment.

Pay / Benefits

• equity grants
• comprehensive benefits package
• health coverage and recovery support

Responsibilities

• Maintain the simulation software stack across tools and environments
• Own and optimize compute, networking, storage, and configuration for the simulation
• Build and extend a post-release regression and smoke-test suite
• Diagnose, root-cause, and eliminate failure modes with guardrails and monitoring
• Partner with development teams to assess reliability risks before releases
• Monitor system health, triage issues, and escalate with context
• Document runbooks, issues, and configurations for operational knowledge
• Support release validation and environment configuration through automation and tooling

Key requirements

• Proficiency in Python for automation and test development
• Working knowledge of C++ for reading, debugging, and tracing simulation code
• Solid general networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, DNS, routing, firewalls) and distributed systems troubleshooting
• Experience with project management, issue tracking, bug triage, and cross-team coordination
• Demonstrated experience maintaining production or production-adjacent systems under time pressure
• Strong written and verbal communication; ability to document and escalate clearly
• Eligibility to pass security and background checks for sensitive information systems

• strong written and verbal communication
• ability to escalate and explain root causes
• proactive problem-solving
• Python automation
• C++ debugging and tracing
• networking fundamentals across distributed systems

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