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You look for the underlying cause and build durable engineering solutions that reduce operational toil and technical debt.\nStrong systems thinker: You understand how infrastructure, applications, networks, deployments, monitoring, and people interact-and can troubleshoot complex production issues across those boundaries.\nCollaborative and reliable: You partner closely with software engineers to make services production-ready, improve operational workflows, and build reliability into systems before they become problems.\nComfortable with growth and ambiguity: You’re comfortable making good decisions without perfect information and adapting as the platform, customer base, and company scale quickly.\nNice to Have:\nExperience working in a high-growth B2B SaaS environment.\nExperience implementing SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.\nExperience building internal tooling and automation to eliminate operational toil.\nExperience supporting multi-region AWS environments.\nAWS cost optimization or FinOps experience.\nNetwork, application security, and compliance experience.\nExperience introducing AI tools or processes into engineering and operational workflows.\nThis position requires access to items and data that are developed under U.S. government contracts and subject to dissemination controls that limit access to U.S. citizens only.\nWe’re a growing team that works collaboratively, is supportive of each other, and is highly energized by the opportunity for a large impact. 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