Job Details

Overview

About Gridware

Gridware is a San Francisco-based technology company dedicated to 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 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 backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.

Role Description

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.

What You'll Do

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS (EKS, EC2, RDS, MSK, S3, VPC …).
• Manage and optimize Kubernetes clusters (EKS) and deploy applications using ArgoCD with GitOps best practices.
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions (GHA), ensuring fast, reliable, and automated software delivery.
• Build and support Kafka-based event streaming platforms using Amazon MSK for high-throughput, low-latency data pipelines.
• Manage identity and access across platforms with IdP integration (Okta, Auth0, or similar).
• Define and manage Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance, cost, and reliability using observability tools like Grafana and Loki.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering, with production experience in AWS infrastructure management.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes administration and GitOps tools like ArgoCD.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD automation and pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions).
• Expertise in running and maintaining distributed systems such as Kafka on MSK and relational databases (RDS).
• Strong understanding of networking, security best practices, and IdP-driven access control.
• Experience with monitoring and logging solutions (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or similar).
• Ability to debug complex production issues across infrastructure, deployment, and networking layers.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with Databricks or ML Ops pipelines for data and model deployment.
• Experience with Terragrunt
• Knowledge of multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments and container security tools.

This describes the ideal candidate; many of us have picked up this expertise along the way. Even if you meet only part of this list, we encourage you to apply!

Benefits

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