Sr site reliability engineer, platform

We’re Blue River, a team of innovators driven to create intelligent machinery that solves monumental problems for our customers. We empower our customers – farmers, construction crews and foresters - to implement safer and more sustainable solutions, driving increased profitability and with less reliance on scarce labor. We believe that focusing on the small stuff – pixel-by-pixel and task-by-task - leads to big gains. With our partners at John Deere, we have the ability to bring innovative computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and product management solutions to scale production, maximizing their potential impact.

Our people are at the heart of what we do. Through cross-discipline collaboration, this mission-driven and daring team is eager to define the new frontier of mobile robotics. We are always asking hard questions, rapidly iterating, and getting our boots in the field and on-site to figure it out. We won’t give up until we’ve made a tangible and positive impact on the planet.

Blue River Technology is based in Santa Clara, CA.

Summary

Blue River Technology is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its Platform organization, which is dedicated to accelerating the company-wide adoption and scaling of automation and robotics. The Platform's product is a set of API services and infrastructure designed to overcome scaling hurdles, such as operational complexity and system exceptions, thereby enabling the rapid launch and scaling of new autonomy innovations and products at Blue River. In this role, you will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers across teams, and shape the direction of our platform.

Employment Type

Full-Time

Work Location

Remote in the United States.

Visa sponsorship is possible for this position.

Job Responsibilities

• Architect, scale, and take ownership of essential infrastructure
• Build and maintain a Kubernetes based platform supporting multiple teams and services
• Build backend services and internal tooling (Golang) to support autonomous systems.
• Work with product teams for launch of new products on the platform
• Grow our high availability infrastructure while maintaining key metrics such as uptime
• Build tooling to support our platform and development teams
• Perform end-to-end performance analysis, identify areas for improvement and implement with robust solutions.
• Work with cloud vendors and external technical support for upgrades and rapid resolution of problems
• Participate in on-call rotation, triaging and resolving production incidents with thorough root cause analysis and postmortem documentation
• Design and maintain observability infrastructure — dashboards, alerts, and log aggregation — to ensure visibility into platform health and service performance
• In collaboration with the security team, conduct regular risk assessments
• Maintain risk register, develop and implement mitigation plans
• Assess intrusion detection alerts. Improve systems and services that digest threat feeds
• In collaboration with IT and purchasing teams, ensure payment process of each SaaS service is established and maintained

Required Experience and Skills

• Minimum of six years of experience in building and maintaining infrastructure for data-intensive, high-availability applications, including building and maintaining public cloud solutions
• Use of cloud orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform in a production environment
• Understanding of software design methodologies, information systems architecture, object-oriented design, and software design patterns
• Experience securing cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS and Kubernetes) in a production environment
• Experience in one or more of the following languages: Golang (preferred), Python, JavaScript, Rust
• Production experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, ArgoCD Image Updater, Artifactory)

You will love this job if you:

• Are interested in robotic applications, and developing software that assists robots
• Want to join a fun, fast-moving engineering team
• Want to build a platform that dozens of autonomous product teams depend on daily
• Are a self-starter with infectious enthusiasm, energy and problem-solving abilities

At Blue River, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. For this position, the reasonably expected pay range is between $148,000 - $261,000/year for the level at which this job has been scoped. Your base pay will depend on several factors, including your experience, qualifications, education, location, and skills. This position is also eligible for an annual performance bonus and a competitive benefit package. During the recruitment process, we may identify an alternative role or level to which you are more suited. If your ideal role at Blue River differs from the advertised position, we will provide an updated pay range as soon as possible during the hiring process.

We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. While we have more work to do to advance diversity and inclusion, we’re investing in our programs, including recruiting, mentorship, career development, and learning & development, to ensure they support our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals. We support each employee in living a full life, enabling a thriving career, and accomplishing a meaningful, challenging mission while collaborating with incredible people. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align completely with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.