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Yet more than visionaries; we have the tools, instruments, focus, and expertise to execute while utilizing a “People Matter Most” mentality.\nOur founder envisioned a massive, untapped opportunity to leverage autonomous flight that would revolutionize how the world may \"pitch\" and \"roll\" in the future. To start, we have harnessed the power of airspace technology, analytics platforms, and drone services to transform business operations. Our long-term mission is to be “Safe and Be Exceptional” while building and deploying the world's most accessible drone ecosystem.\nKnowing that our mission critical success comes directly from the people we bring onboard, we strive to provide opportunities for our employees to learn, grow, and go beyond the normal Field of View! Come fly with us as our team goes through our checklists that will “Inspire Fast Action” and take an entire industry to new heights. “Be a Person Others Want to Follow!”\nAbout the role\nDroneUp is seeking an SRE - Platform Engineer who will focus on ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our internal and client-facing IT infrastructure and developer platform. This role combines strong operational expertise with platform engineering principles, emphasizing uptime, incident response, and observability. The ideal candidate will drive SRE best practices, including SLO/SLI management, monitoring, and proactive system improvements, while collaborating with the broader platform engineering team. 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Proactively investigate better solutions for current solutions\nAn understanding of Open Telemetry and true observability and the difference between it and monitoring and logging\nGrow the engineering culture towards a high-performing team\nPractice the arts of self-service, least privilege and security by default in all solutions\nDefine and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets\nLead incident response, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews\nImplement and optimize monitoring, alerting, and observability systems for system reliability\nCollaborate on capacity planning and performance optimization to ensure high availability\nOther duties as assigned\nOur Tooling Stack Includes but is Not Limited to:\nGithub / Github Actions\nGCP\nKubernetes (via GKE), Helm, Docker\nGSM Secrets Management (part of GCP)\nTerraform\nHoneycomb\nGrafana stack\nPrometheus\nQualifications\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or 8+ years experience as a software engineer\nProficiency in kubernetes. 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Ability to resolve tickets according to priority order and collaborating with the Technical Product Manager to adjust priorities\nExcellent documentation details, using Confluence or similar tooling - this could include support notes, runbooks, ADRs, etc\nFamiliarity with creating an end to end CI/CD pipeline using various tools with artifact storage\nFamiliarity with use of MacOS as a desktop and predominantly CLI interfaces\nExperience in a “product mindset” by understanding stakeholder needs, priorities and business value\nExperience with security compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, NIST, and SOC2\nProven experience in SRE practices, including incident management and reliability engineering\nFamiliarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Honeycomb for observability\nExperience with chaos engineering, load testing, or reliability testing frameworks\nSecurity Responsibility Statement: Employees are expected to provide a high level of security to any personal or private information accessed as part of their work, whether at a DroneUp facility or remotely. 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