Vannevar
Site Reliability Engineer
About this role
Vannevar Labs seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to own platform reliability, monitoring, and deployment automation for AI defense systems. You'll monitor system health, respond to incidents, build observability tooling, and drive infrastructure improvements while working in a mission-focused, fast-growing defense technology company.
What you'll do
- Monitor dashboards and system telemetry to detect performance issues and reliability risks before they escalate
- Own end-to-end incident debugging and response, making informed decisions about investigation depth and escalation
- Build logging, monitoring, and observability infrastructure to mature SRE practices
- Develop and maintain platform health, scaling strategies, and capacity planning
- Automate deployment pipelines and improve the build process for the engineering team
- Create self-service tools and identify bottlenecks to enhance team efficiency and reliability
What they're looking for
- Production system monitoring and incident response
- AWS cloud infrastructure
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Python, Bash, or shell scripting
- Observability and monitoring tools (Datadog or similar)
- CI/CD pipeline design and automation
- On-call rotation management and post-mortem facilitation
- Clear communication under pressure
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Vannevar
Vannevar builds defense technology platforms that leverage data collection, agentic AI, and machine learning to support national security and military operations. The company is hiring Backend Engineers, Product Engineers, Machine Learning Engineers, and Forward Deployed Engineers to develop and modernize mission-critical software systems that enable faster, data-driven decision-making for warfighters.
- Website
- vannevar.ai
Likely interview questions
- Tell us about a time you caught a production issue before it impacted users. How did you detect it and what was your response?
- Describe a complex incident you debugged. How did you decide when to investigate further versus escalate, and what did you learn?