DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain observability and alerting systems across critical services and infrastructure
• Ensure all production and internal services are properly instrumented with metrics, logs, and traces
• Own and maintain developer productivity tools, CI/CD systems, and internal platforms
• Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents with urgency and discipline
• Lead incident reviews and drive long-term reliability improvements
• Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil and improve system resilience

Requirements

• Strong fundamentals in web service development and distributed systems
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, DNS, TLS/certificate management, and HTTP
• Experience operating and debugging production systems
• Familiarity with observability tools and incident response
• Ability to write clear, maintainable code and automation scripts
• Demonstrated ownership, attention to detail, and sound technical judgment
• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with modern observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code
• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling at scale
• Experience supporting safety-critical or high-reliability systems
• Strong debugging skills across application, OS, and network boundaries
• Prior on-call experience in a production environment

About the Company

General Matter is enriching uranium in America to restore the country's ability to make nuclear fuel. The company was incubated by Founders Fund and is backed by top-tier investors. Its lean, world-class team applies a first-principles approach to nuclear fuel production to power AI, manufacturing, next-generation reactors, and national ambitions.