{"id":633891,"url":"https://alion.io/job/aalyria-site-reliability-engineer-usg","title":"Site Reliability Engineer, USG","company":{"id":668833,"name":"Aalyria","domain":"aalyria.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/aalyria","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Rippling","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":88,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.3,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":90,"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":91000,"max_usd":169000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":112},"experience_years_min":4,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"ArgoCD","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"GCP","optional":false},{"name":"GitOps","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Honeycomb","optional":false},{"name":"Jaeger","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"Loki","optional":false},{"name":"OpenTelemetry","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"Prometheus","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Terraform","optional":false},{"name":"C++","optional":true},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"GitLab CI","optional":true},{"name":"Istio","optional":true},{"name":"Java","optional":true},{"name":"Linkerd","optional":true},{"name":"Service Mesh","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-27T23:23:12Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-27","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T17:17:37Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":62,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":62},"description":"About Aalyria:\nAalyria is a leading technology company that supplies laser communications technology and temporospatial software-defined networking platforms to the aerospace industry. With technology acquired from Google, Aalyria is at the forefront of innovation in satellite and airborne mesh networks, as well as cislunar and deep-space communications. We are revolutionizing the orchestration and management of planetary mesh networks using any radio or optical spectrum, any orbit, and any hardware across land, sea, air, and space.\nRole Overview:\nThis isn't a \"keep the lights on\" SRE role. This is a strategic, high-impact opportunity to build the nervous system for a platform that transforms how networks of satellites, ground stations, and fleets are interconnected and orchestrated. You will be building the core observability stack that ensures the reliability of systems critical to the operation of satellite megaconstellations and missions to deep space.\nThis is a greenfield/brownfield opportunity. You will be a trusted expert, helping to define and implement the strategy and building the tools that empower our engineers. You will support the roadmap to mature our observability stack, moving from cloud-native tools to a robust, scalable, and insightful platform built on best-in-class technologies (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, etc.). If you are an SRE who thrives on platform-building challenges and wants to be relied upon to build a production-grade observability stack from the ground up, this role is for you.\nNote: this role includes on-call responsibilities.\nKey Responsibilities:\nHelp design and build Aalyria's centralized observability platform, integrating and scaling tools for metrics (e.g. Prometheus), logging (e.g. Loki), and distributed tracing (e.g. Tempo/OpenTelemetry).\nDefine, implement, and manage a robust framework of Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets for our core products, ensuring we are launch-ready.\nPartner with SWEs to implement observability best practices, develop standard templates and documentation, and configure tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry libraries).\nAutomate the deployment, scaling, and management of the entire observability stack using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform) and GitOps principles (e.g. ArgoCD).\nPartner closely with the core infrastructure team to ensure deep visibility into our Kubernetes clusters and underlying GCP and AWS environments.\nDevelop and lead the company's monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategy, driving a culture of proactive reliability and blameless post-mortems.\nRequired Qualifications:\nActive Top Secret (TS/SCI) security clearance.\n4+ years of experience in an SRE or platform engineering role, with a focus on observability for large-scale, distributed compute or network systems.\nDeep, hands-on expertise building, scaling, and managing observability platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK, OpenTelemetry, Tempo/Jaeger, Honeycomb, etc.). You have proven experience using these tools to support performance analysis and debugging of complex distributed systems.\nStrong production-level experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes.\nExperience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps principles (e.g., ArgoCD).\nProficiency in a systems programming language, with a strong preference for Go and Python for debugging and writing tooling.\nDemonstrable experience defining, implementing, and managing SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for production services for high availability distributed systems.\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExperience operating a multi-cloud environment, specifically GCP and AWS.\nHands-on experience with GitLab CI for CI/CD pipelines.\nWorking knowledge of service mesh technologies such as Istio or Linkerd.\nFamiliarity with instrumenting applications written in Go and C++.\nAn active Secret clearance, or higher, is preferred for this position. \nExperience with JVM observability (tuning, monitoring) for Java-based applications.\nWhat We Offer:\nInnovative Environment: Work at a cutting-edge company shaping the future of aerospace communications.\nImpactful Work: Directly contribute to critical national security programs and initiatives.\nGrowth Opportunities: Expand your career with opportunities for professional development and advancement.\nInclusive Culture: Be part of a collaborative, supportive, and inclusive workplace where your contributions matter.\nFlexibility: Flexible working arrangements including hybrid remote/in-office schedules.\nCompensation and Equity: Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits (401(k), dental, vision, health, life insurance), paid time off, and equity options.\nITAR/EAR Requirements:\nThis position involves access to export-controlled information. To comply with U.S. government export regulations, applicants must meet one of the following criteria:\n(A) Qualify as a U.S. person, which includes:\nU.S. citizen or national\nU.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder)\nRefugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157\nAsylee under 8 U.S.C. 1158\n(B) Be eligible to access export-controlled information without requiring an export authorization.\n(C) Be eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the necessary export authorization from the appropriate U.S. government agency.\nThe company reserves the right to decline pursuing an export licensing process for legitimate business-related reasons.\nEqual Opportunity Employer Statement:\nAalyria is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Qualified applicants from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5930,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":4,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Flexible schedule","Growth opportunities","Life insurance","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Telecom Infrastructure"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-10T19:36:54Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":62,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.858,"p_room":0.72,"age_days":62,"expected_fill_days":90,"reasons":["conf:1","win:mid","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/aalyria-site-reliability-engineer-usg","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/aalyria-site-reliability-engineer-usg.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T18:57:04Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":28147,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":668833},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=668833"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Faalyria-site-reliability-engineer-usg"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Faalyria-site-reliability-engineer-usg"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Faalyria-site-reliability-engineer-usg"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/aalyria-site-reliability-engineer-usg\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Faalyria-site-reliability-engineer-usg"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":633891}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"aalyria.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":633891},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}