Site Reliability Specialist, GHGSat

SRE

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Linux

Ansible

Azure

DevOps

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada

Satellites for emissions monitoring

Be an early applicant

Satellites for emissions monitoring

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnergySustainabilityDeep TechAerospace

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

+ Stock Options

AWS

Kubernetes

Kafka

Linux

Ansible

Azure

DevOps

Senior and Expert level

Remote from Canada

201-500 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnergySustainabilityDeep TechAerospace

Company mission

To accelerate the decarbonization of our planet by providing actionable metrics and insights that empower the economies of tomorrow.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You have 5–10 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or Systems Engineering roles in fast-moving tech environments
You are deeply comfortable with Linux, Kubernetes, and cloud-native infrastructure (we primarily use AWS)
You treat Infrastructure as Code (OpenTofu, Ansible, etc.) as a given, not an extra
You have practical experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response — and you’ve helped teams learn from failure
You have a solid understanding of cybersecurity best practices — especially in securing distributed systems and developer workflows
You’ve supported CI/CD, container builds, and artifact lifecycles in production environments
You’re a great communicator who understands that trust, empathy, and clarity are as important as your shell scripts
Bonus: you’re bilingual (French/English) and/or excited about space, science, and climate impact 🌍
Experience working with event-driving architectures using systems like Kafka

What the job involves

As a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at GHGSat, you’ll be at the center of that mission
You’ll join our Digital Infrastructure team and help build and operate the foundation that powers our satellite data processing, analytics pipelines, and customer platforms
This is not a “keep the lights on” role — you’ll help evolve our infrastructure, increase reliability, and shape how modern SRE is practiced at GHGSat
Design and evolve our infrastructure using modern SRE principles — from infrastructure-as-code to self-healing systems and robust observability
Operate and optimize GHGSat’s cloud and on-prem services, including Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD pipelines, artifact registries, and custom workloads
Build and refine our observability stack, including logs, metrics, traces, and actionable alerts
Automate relentlessly — from security audits to deployment flows. If it’s repetitive, it’s a script waiting to happen
Improve and secure workflows for 80+ engineers and researchers across cloud and hybrid environments
Own and mature our IAM strategy, including auditing, lifecycle management, and tooling across Azure AD, AWS IAM, and internal systems
Lead by example in championing best practices around security, ops hygiene, and incident readiness
Collaborate closely with dev and research teams to understand their systems and ensure SRE supports their velocity, not slows it down

Our take

As organizations worldwide ramp up their decarbonization efforts, GHGSat is setting out to empower them with emissions data and intelligence that will help optimize their performance and support them in upholding environmental standards.

The company operates a network of satellites that allow for the high-resolution sensing of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, that is precise enough to attribute emissions to individual facilities. Through this, it is able to monitor decarbonization progress for specific organizations and support them in making more impactful changes.

In 2022, whilst operating six satellites, GHGSat was able to observe over 500,000 facilities across the globe. In 2023 it added an additional three satellites to its network, which it says will almost double its measurement capacity. As the only company currently delivering high-resolution emissions measurements, GHGSat is in a great position to capitalise on the rising demand for its tech.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Glassdoor (4.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Sep 2023

$22m

SERIES C

Nov 2021

$14.7m

GRANT

Total funding: $91.7m

Company benefits

A creative and highly motivating work environment
Health benefits
Flex time
Continuing development

Company HQ

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montreal, QC

Leadership

Stephane Germain

(President)

Was Board Chair at Xiphos Systems Corporation for 13 years, and prior to this worked as a Consultant for Bain & Company.

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