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About us
At saildrone, we sustainably explore, map, and monitor the oceans to understand, preserve, and protect our worldSaildrone provides real-time access to critical data from any ocean on earth, 24/7/365, and uses proprietary software applications to transform that data into actionable insights and intelligenceSaildrone’s fleet of uncrewed surface vehicles (usvs), powered by renewable wind and solar power, have a minimal carbon footprint and operate 24/7/365, without the need for a crewed support vehicleWe work with governments, civil agencies, foundations, universities, and private companies around the globe to drive better information about our oceans and seas—from sailing drones into the eye of a category 4 hurricane to obtain new scientific storm data, mapping the ocean floor, collecting new co2 data in hard-to-reach areas, counting biomass to establish fishing quotas, or detecting and stopping illegal fishing and drug traffickingAs a result of our work, we have been included on fast company’s annual list of the “world’s most innovative companies for 2022” and earned the 2022 ocean awards’ innovation award, presented by the blue marine foundationSaildrone’s hurricane mission was included as one of the new york times`top 21 things that happened (for the first time) in 2021`, and popular science `s `100 greatest innovations of 2021`.
We are based in alameda, ca, with offices in washington dc, stPetersburg, fl, and fall river, ma, and operate our missions worldwideWe are backed by top-tier investors in the frontier-tech and sustainability sectors, including social capital, capricorn, lux capital, bond capital, and emerson collective.
This is an exciting opportunity with a fast-growing team at the cutting-edge intersection of big data services and autonomous hardwareYou will be an integral part of a high-performing multi-disciplinary delivering high impact for humanity and future generations.
The role
As a saildrone site reliability engineer you will be part of the technical infrastructure team and responsible for scaling our infrastructure, improving developer efficiency, building automation and tooling to support both internal and customer facing productsThe saildrone r&d team is passionate about metric based analysis and data driven decision makingAs an sre you will help drive the collection of useful, actionable metrics and influence the architectural decision making process.
Advocate for reliability through testing, documentation, and standard methodologies
Drive standardization across our services and teams to simplify our platform and processes
Maintain production services by measuring and monitoring availability, utilization, and overall system health
Perform root cause analysis to increase the reliability and resilience of systems
Represent the technical infrastructure group in cross functional design meetings
Required skills and experience
Excellent technical design and documentation skills
Experience running production workloads on kubernetes
Fluency in scm (e.gGithub)
Familiarity working with containers (docker).
Deep experience running production systems on aws
Strong eye for quality control and attention to detail
Desire skills and experience
Security focused design
Experience with infrastructure as code tooling such as packer, terraform, ansible, salt.
Experience with siem platforms such as splunk or elk.
Location: this position can be in alameda, ca or the option of being remoteOnly candidates with proper permits to work in the united states can be consideredOur waterfront office offers beautiful views of san francisco bay in always sunny alamedaEven our walls have good karma, our offices mix software development with a hardware production line in the former airplane hangar used to film `the matrix`.
Benefits:
Medical, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents.
Short and relaxing ferry ride from the ferry building for sf residents
Enhanced parental leave programs
Competitive benefits including excellent medical, life insurance, 401k plan
Catch up on the latest news about us:
An unprecedented view inside a hurricane – eos (may 6, 2022)
Meet the sailing robots trying to solve climate change – the hill (mar18, 2022)
They sailed into a hurricane, now these unmanned saildrones are seeking data on our carbon uptake – cnn (dec9, 2021)
Saildrone catches a $100m c breeze to build more robo-boats – techcrunch (oct18, 2021)
With a sight, sound and radar picture, saildrone could build an ai database of everything in the ocean – forbes (aug16, 2021)
Changing arctic environment could also change technologies needed to protect it, experts say – seapower magazine (aug2, 2021)
Autonomous research vehicle completes ocean crossing from san francisco to hawaii – hydro international (july 13, 2021)
Saildrone featured videos playlist
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our companyWe do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
In accordance with saildrone’s mandatory employee covid-19 vaccination policy, please be advised that all employees are required to be vaccinated and boosted to safeguard the health of our employees and their families, our customers and visitors and the community at large.
Any unsolicited resumes/candidate profiles submitted through our website or to personal email accounts of employees of saildrone are considered property of saildrone and are not subject to payment of agency fees.
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