Senior Site Reliability Engineer
ABOUT US:
Collaborative autonomy is how self-tasking teams of machines will solve hard human problems, and HavocAI is an unquestioned leader in collaborative autonomy. We set the standard for autonomous surface vessels for a wide range of defense and commercial maritime missions. Success requires us to grow quickly, and we’re looking for teammates who are passionate about solving hard problems, about pushing the envelope, and about preventing conflict and saving lives. Ambition is welcome to apply within.
ABOUT THE ROLE
HavocAI is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 7+ years of experience designing, operating, and scaling highly reliable distributed systems. In this role, you will serve as a key technical leader within the Cloud Platform team, responsible for ensuring the availability, performance, and resilience of mission-critical services supporting autonomy, simulation, and data-intensive workloads.
You will work closely with Cloud Platform, DevOps, Data Engineering, and Autonomy teams to establish reliability standards, improve operational maturity, and build systems that scale safely under real-world conditions.
The ideal candidate is deeply technical, calm under pressure, and experienced in owning reliability outcomes end to end.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
RELIABILITY ENGINEERING & ARCHITECTURE
- Design and evolve reliability architecture for distributed and cloud-hosted systems
- Define and implement SRE best practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning
- Partner with platform and application teams to design systems for reliability, scalability, and operability
- Identify and mitigate systemic reliability risks across infrastructure, applications, services, and data pipelines
- Establish reliability patterns that support autonomy, simulation, and mission-critical cloud workloads
OPERATIONS & INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
- Lead incident response processes, including on-call rotations, escalation paths, and...