Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Finite State
$215-250k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus equity
All-in-one connected security platform
Job no longer available
All-in-one connected security platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$215-250k
Salary range dependent on candidate location. Plus equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To protect our connected world.
Role
Who you are
- This individual will bring deep experience in reliability engineering, distributed systems, and production operations—along with a forward-thinking mindset around AI-assisted development and infrastructure-as-code
- If you are passionate about building resilient systems, defining SLOs that actually matter, and leveraging AI tooling to accelerate operational excellence, this role is for you
- 10+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Production Engineering
- Proven experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLAs, SLIs, and error budget frameworks at scale
- Deep experience building and managing on-call rotations and incident management processes
- Strong background in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures
- Hands-on experience with:
- Honeycomb
- Grafana
- AWS
- Vercel
- Supabase
- Strong experience with observability instrumentation and telemetry design
- Infrastructure-as-Code experience (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, or similar)
- Experience designing resilient CI/CD pipelines
- Deep understanding of high-availability, scalability, and performance engineering principles
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI tools (Cursor, Claude, Codex, etc.) in development or infrastructure workflows
- Experience using AI-assisted tooling to generate, validate, or optimize infrastructure configurations
- Strong interest in building AI-native operational practices
- Leadership & Communication
- Ability to operate as both strategic architect and hands-on implementer
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience influencing cross-functional teams
- Comfort working in fast-paced, high-growth environments
Desirable
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads in production
- Experience building internal developer platforms (IDP)
- Experience with cost observability and FinOps practices
- Experience scaling observability in high-growth SaaS environments
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Infrastructure Engineering leader to define, architect, and drive a modern observability and reliability strategy for an AI-first development organization
- This is a highly impactful technical leadership role responsible for establishing best-in-class operational practices, reliability standards, and AI-enabled infrastructure automation across our product ecosystem
- Leverage AI tools and Agentic processes to drive observability, quality, responsiveness, and operational clarity
- Design modern telemetry pipelines (metrics, logs, traces, events) for distributed systems and AI-driven workloads
- Define and implement a comprehensive observability framework across applications and
- Infrastructure
- Establish and operationalize meaningful SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs aligned with business objectives
- Lead the adoption and optimization of observability tooling including Honeycomb, Grafana, and related telemetry platforms
- Drive best practices in error budgeting, alert design, and production health monitoring
- Operational Excellence
- Define and evolve incident management processes, including:
- On-call structures and escalation models
- Postmortems and blameless retrospectives
- Runbooks and operational playbooks
- Improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
- Establish operational KPIs and reliability dashboards for engineering and leadership visibility
- Lead reliability reviews for new architecture and product initiatives
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Architect and implement scalable cloud infrastructure primarily within AWS
- Work closely with modern application platforms such as Vercel and Supabase
- Implement and improve Infrastructure-as-Code practices
- Leverage AI-assisted tooling to accelerate infrastructure design, validation, and automation
- Ensure production-grade security, compliance, and resilience standards
- AI-First Enablement
- Champion the use of AI tools to:
- Accelerate infrastructure provisioning
- Improve operational workflows
- Enhance observability signal quality
- Automate incident response and remediation
- Partner with AI-focused product teams to ensure observability supports model performance, experimentation, and reliability
- Technical Leadership
- Serve as a senior technical authority for reliability and infrastructure decisions
- Mentor engineers on production best practices
- Influence architectural decisions to improve system resilience and maintainability
- Drive a culture of reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement
- What Success Looks Like in the First 6 Months
- Clear SLO framework implemented across core services
- Observability tooling standardized and adopted organization-wide
- On-call and incident management processes running smoothly with measurable improvements
- AI-driven infrastructure workflows reducing operational toil
Our take
Widespread adoption of technologies such as the Internet of Things and embedded systems is on the rise. However, this surge in technological integration brings with it a growing concern over potential vulnerabilities within the supply chain. Addressing this issue head-on is Finite State, specialising in providing security solutions for infrastructure and connected devices, primarily by offering comprehensive and transparent insights into the supply chains and files associated with firmware production.
The spotlight on cyber threats has increasingly turned to firmware, with a staggering fivefold rise in firmware attacks in recent years. Finite State asserts that its approach to countering this escalating threat is unparalleled in the market, potentially giving the company a significant advantage over other startups in the competition. Finite State has already carved out a distinctive reputation, notably through its 2019 exposé highlighting numerous vulnerabilities in Huawei's networking products.
Despite the growing awareness among enterprises regarding the looming threat of firmware attacks, reports suggest that most companies are currently underinvesting in firmware security. However, as the threat landscape evolves, a shift in this trend is anticipated. Should this change materialise, Finite State's offerings position the company to capitalise on emerging opportunities in the realm of firmware security.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- The Usuals: We offer equity for everyone. Medical, dental, vision covered, 401k, short and long-term disability, and life insurance
- Work-life synergy: We take time off and flexibility seriously. Our team is fully remote all across the US, enjoys unlimited PTO, and is entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave
- Mission driven team: We are a team of experts and dedicated professionals—but more than that, we are a diverse group of individuals who support one another in our work and in our mission
- Transparent culture: With bi-weekly business updates, an open-door policy with the executive team, a fireside chat series with our board and other stakeholders, we make sure that everyone on the team has access to what’s going on throughout the company
- Social & supportive environment: We work hard to ensure that Finite State is a fun, comfortable place to work no matter your background. Teams work together to ensure that everyone feels supported and has their needs met, and our vibrant social calendar gives us a myriad of opportunities to kick back and have a good time
Company HQ
Short North Arts District, Columbus, OH
Leadership
Matt Wyckhouse
(Founder & CEO)Studied Computer Science at Ohio State. Previously CTO of Cyber Innovations at Battelle, and then Product Manager at Redacted.
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