Staff Site Reliability Engineer
TLDR
Own and manage mission-critical infrastructure ensuring high availability, reliability, and automation while leveraging cloud technologies and security best practices.
Figure is an AI robotics company developing autonomous general-purpose humanoid robots. The goal of the company is to ship humanoid robots with human level intelligence. Its robots are engineered to perform a variety of tasks in the home and commercial markets. Figure is headquartered in San Jose, CA.
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to own our internal systems infrastructure. This role is responsible for setting up and managing cloud and on-prem infrastructure to deliver highly available, reliable, and automated systems.
Responsibilities:
- Be the go to person for mission critical infrastructure enabling critical operations such as Source Configuration Management, CI/CD systems, software distribution, supplier portals, manufacturing and more.
- Migrate SaaS to self-hosted solutions to enhance security and reliability.
- Implement monitoring and alerting systems, and define incident response plans and runbooks.
- Reduce human workload through automation to automate deployment and scaling.
- Establish strong relationships with stakeholders to identify infrastructure needs and establish Service Level Objectives.
- Use a data driven approach to demonstrate service robustness and track optimization work.
- Partner with the security team to ensure that security remediations and updates are applied in a timely manner.
Requirements:
- Strong experience with Linux/Unix systems administration
- Proficiency in programming/scripting
- Extensive experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and on-prem hardware architectures
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, and distributed systems.
- Mastery of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible…)
- Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog…)
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, load balancers, firewalls)
- Experience defining Service Level Objectives (SLO), developing runbooks/incident response plans, facilitating post-mortems and managing systems assets.
- Ability to work in cross-functional teams with developers, infra, and product teams
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $175,000 - $250,000 annually.
The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional components/benefits depending on the specific role. This information will be shared if an employment offer is extended.
Figure is an AI robotics company creating autonomous humanoid robots tailored for a range of tasks in both commercial and home environments. By aiming to achieve human-level intelligence in its robots, Figure addresses pressing labor shortages and fills roles that are often considered undesirable or unsafe.