Software Engineer

The Site Reliability Engineering discipline at Noctua Technology, LLC is a strategic force driving digital transformation. We treat operations as a software engineering challenge, focusing on the seamless integration, scalability, and long-term reliability of cloud native systems. Our SREs don’t just manage infrastructure; they build it using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), monitor it through advanced observability stacks, and protect it by engineering for failure. We work closely with clients to bridge the gap between development and operations.

We are seeking a highly experienced and autonomous Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our dynamic team. As a technical leader, you will define the strategy and apply advanced software engineering principles to operations, focusing on the architecture, reliability, and long-term performance of large-scale production systems. You will play a crucial role in reducing toil through automation, defining and monitoring Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and implementing best practices for system stability and incident response. This role requires working with modern cloud technologies to ensure the high availability and efficiency of applications and infrastructure.

• Location: Primarily Remote. Candidates must be based in CA or DC Metro Area for proximity to project and client teams.
• Security Clearance Requirement: Applicants must be US citizens and eligible to obtain and maintain an active Secret security clearance or above.

Key Responsibilities

Site Reliability Engineering

• Drive the definition and adoption of SLIs and SLOs across multiple services or entire platforms, ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Design and architect Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions for large-scale, complex environments, establishing standards and best practices.
• Implement and manage containerized and serverless architectures using Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native services, focusing on performance and error budgets.
• Build and maintain reliable and self-healing CI/CD pipelines to automate deployments and improve development workflows.

Toil Reduction and Incident Management 

• Implement and refine comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging to detect and address performance and availability issues proactively.
• Lead the strategic effort to eliminate toil, identifying and championing major automation projects that deliver significant organizational efficiency.
• Lead high-severity incident response and coordinate blameless postmortems for major outages, driving the resulting remediation and systemic improvements.