Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Overstory
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AI-powered grid resilience software to prevent wildfires and power outages
Open for applications
AI-powered grid resilience software to prevent wildfires and power outages
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
Enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes
Role
Who you are
- You are able to prioritize collaboratively between tactical problems and strategic direction
- You are comfortable and effective working in a terminal in a Unix-based environment
- You are confident in driving Infrastructure-As-Code principles
- You have experience working with any of the major Cloud Providers
- You have strong communication skills and are comfortable expressing your ideas to multiple different audiences
- You are proactive with a positive attitude, well organised, and adept at managing competing deadlines and priorities
- You are comfortable with and excited by a fast-paced and often changing environment, eager to solve new problems and learn new skills in order to succeed
- You have a self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so
- Teamwork is at your core, and you like to help others grow and succeed
Desirable
- You can demonstrate experience scaling large distributed architectures
- You have experience in working in a remote-first environment
- You have worked with satellite data and/or imagery
- You have prior experience with Kubernetes
What the job involves
- As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will contribute to the evolution of the strategic management of our GCP infrastructure, and of DevOps practices like incident management, SLOs and error budgets.
- You will champion observability as a way to improve mean time to recover and use DORA metrics to help the Product & Engineering team to get better at creating amazing products, and help other teams to optimize the use of GCP and manage cost
- Design and evolve Overstory’s cloud infrastructure to support the company’s scaling needs, laying the foundation for performance, security, and maintenance
- Build tooling and automation that promote team autonomy while ensuring operational excellence
- Advance our observability platform to support long-term insights, meaningful alerting and improved ease of use for the engineering teams
- Build visibility into infra costs to raise awareness across engineering and empower teams to make cost-aware decisions
- Champion reliability best practices by shaping incident processes, defining SLOs, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
Our take
Overstory applies artificial intelligence to high-resolution satellite imagery, providing grid resilience software for utilities. The company's combination of machine learning and satellite remote sensing data helps utility companies predict and mitigate the risk of power outages and wildfires before they occur.
Backed by top climate tech investors, Overstory has secured clients including PG&E, OG&E and Hydro Ottawa. All this goes to show that its product and business model are considered attractive for the space.
With fresh funding to its name, Overstory is ready to accelerate the development of its AI-based risk models, advance its wildfire prevention offering, and expand on a global scale, helping communities and ecosystems stay safer from devastating wildfires.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Nov 2025
$43m
SERIES B
Oct 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $68m
Company benefits
- Fully remote work environment
- Work from home budget
- Dedicated learning time and budget
- In-person Overstory team gatherings
- Fully paid parental leave
- Co-working budget
- Travel budget to meet up with colleagues
- 401k with match 🇺🇸
- Pension 🇬🇧
Company values
- Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission: We act with urgency.
- Trust is fundamental: We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.
- Our curiosity fuels our growth: We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
- We care for each other: We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.
- We’re rooted in diversity: Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.
Company HQ
Weesperbuurt en Plantage, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Articles
Leadership
Fiona Spruill
(CEO)Fiona Spruill is the CEO of Overstory, an AI company using remote sensing technology to help utilities reduce wildfire risk, prevent power outages, and optimize grid resilience.
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