Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Gridware is a technology company focused on protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced active grid response platform uses high-precision mechanical sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.

We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and maintain the infrastructure powering our modern, cloud-native applications. In this role, you will design and implement scalable and secure platforms on AWS, leveraging Kubernetes (EKS) and ArgoCD for GitOps-driven deployments. You’ll be responsible for building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, managing event streaming with Amazon MSK, and maintaining reliable relational databases on RDS. You will own our Infrastructure as Code strategy with Terraform and drive best practices around security, identity management (IdP integrations), and cost optimization. 

You will also play a key role in observability and platform reliability, building and maintaining monitoring and logging solutions with tools like Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus to ensure system performance and resilience. The successful candidate will work closely with our Cloud Security Engineer to enforce security standards, implement best practices, and ensure compliance across the infrastructure stack. This is a highly collaborative position where you’ll partner with engineering teams to deliver reliable environments, automate deployments, and improve developer velocity while staying ahead of modern DevOps and cloud-native practices. 

Health, Dental & Vision (Gold and Platinum with some providers plans fully covered) 

Paid parental leave 

Alternating day off (every other Monday)

“Off the Grid”, a two week per year paid break for all employees. 

Commuter allowance 

Company-paid training