Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Overview

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.

The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.

One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages is vegetation coming into contact with power lines. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages, reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient grid.

Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists, athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good. Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.

Role

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will contribute to the evolution of the strategic management of our GCP infrastructure, and of DevOps practices like incident management, SLOs and error budgets. You will champion observability as a way to improve mean time to recover and use DORA metrics to help the Product & Engineering team to get better at creating amazing products, and help other teams to optimize the use of GCP and manage cost.

What You’ll Do

• Design and evolve Overstory’s cloud infrastructure to support the company’s scaling needs, laying the foundation for performance, security, and maintenance.
• Build tooling and automation that promote team autonomy while ensuring operational excellence.
• Advance our observability platform to support long-term insights, meaningful alerting and improved ease of use for the engineering teams.
• Build visibility into infra costs to raise awareness across engineering and empower teams to make cost-aware decisions.
• Champion reliability best practices by shaping incident processes, defining SLOs, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

About You

• You are able to prioritize collaboratively between tactical problems and strategic direction.
• You are comfortable and effective working in a terminal in a Unix-based environment.
• You are confident in driving Infrastructure-As-Code principles.
• You have experience working with any of the major Cloud Providers.
• You have strong communication skills and are comfortable expressing your ideas to multiple different audiences.
• You are proactive with a positive attitude, well organized, and adept at managing competing deadlines and priorities.
• You are comfortable with and excited by a fast-paced and often changing environment, eager to solve new problems and learn new skills in order to succeed.
• You have a self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so.
• Teamwork is at your core, and you like to help others grow and succeed.

Nice-to-haves

• You can demonstrate experience scaling large distributed architectures.
• You have experience working in a remote-first environment.
• You have worked with satellite data and/or imagery.
• You have prior experience with Kubernetes.

What You Get

• To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
• Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.
• Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.
• To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other’s back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
• Equity and a competitive salary.