Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Blitzy is an AI software development platform that autonomously builds custom software for enterprises. The Site Reliability Engineer will deploy, operate, and maintain Blitzy’s self-hosted platform in a secure customer cloud environment, owning reliability, Kubernetes operations, observability, security, and customer-facing infrastructure collaboration for public sector deployments.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, operate, and maintain Blitzy's self-hosted platform within a customer-controlled, secure cloud environment
- Own the Kubernetes-based deployment: releases, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance benchmarking for compute-intensive AI workloads
- Design and maintain observability — logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting — that operates fully within the customer's security boundary
- Serve as Blitzy's on-account technical presence: partner with customer infrastructure, security, and governance teams on provisioning, reviews, documentation, and operational escalations
- Handle sensitive customer data in accordance with customer security requirements; champion security best practices across the deployment
- Feed lessons learned back into Blitzy's product and infrastructure roadmap to strengthen our self-hosted offering for future public sector customers
Skills
- U.S. citizenship (customer badging requirement) and ability to complete a customer background/badging process
- 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering roles
- Strong proficiency in Kubernetes and container orchestration; hands-on experience deploying software into customer-controlled or restricted environments
- Experience operating in isolated, restricted, or otherwise highly regulated network environments (defense, government, financial services, or similar)
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Pulumi, or equivalent) and at least one major cloud platform
- Deep expertise in observability tooling, incident management, and on-call practices
- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
- Excellent communication skills — you will work directly with customer engineering, security, and governance stakeholders and represent Blitzy on the account
- Experience deploying or operating software in government-accredited or similarly certified cloud environments
- Familiarity with handling sensitive data and security frameworks common to regulated industries
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads or their supporting infrastructure
- Prior forward-deployed, residency, or embedded-engineer experience at an enterprise customer site
- Prior experience in a high-growth startup environment where you wore multiple hats
Benefits
- Bonus commensurate with experience
- Equity commensurate with experience
- Remote work in the U.S.
- We promote great sleep, movement, and restorative activities for optimal mental performance.
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