Site Reliability Engineer

Who We Are:

Kudu Dynamics is a 100% employee-owned company forged out of a decade of experience in computer network operations and staffed with talent who have built overseen and enhanced capabilities throughout the entire USG arsenal. Our team of hackers engineers makers and shakers brings deep experience across research development deployment and operations.

Kudu Dynamics is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrows threats and build the next generation of capabilities.

When you come in for your interview youll see that Kudu is an amazing place to work where youll be surrounded by experts who are ready to teach and learn. Our team has flexible work hours and work-from-home options. When we do work from the offices we enjoy home-roasted coffee and award-winning workspaces.

Job Description:

Hello! Were a small team in a fun company looking for someone to come in and help us build systems that stay reliable when things get complicated.

We need a Site Reliability Engineer who has experience building deploying automating and operating complex compute platforms. Youll work across infrastructure Linux systems networking distributed storage observability security and deployment automation with a particular emphasis on creating systems that are reproducible maintainable resilient and easy to operate.

A major part of this role will involve Nix and NixOS. We want someone who appreciates declarative systems reproducible environments infrastructure-as-code and reducing configuration drift. You may be building NixOS-based servers improving deployment pipelines developing reusable Nix modules debugging distributed systems or making sure a platform can be rebuilt predictably from scratch.

Critical components of the environment may include high-performance compute distributed Linux file systems network design security-in-depth ML/AI infrastructure high-bandwidth data processing cloud deployment and fielded systems.

You dont need to be an expert at everything. Whatever part you bite off though will be yours to own. This is a great opportunity to apply deep systems expertise while learning adjacent areas.

Our team needs your help making sure our customers are repeatedly provided with operational insights from a multi-domain data environmentand that the infrastructure producing those insights is dependable observable reproducible and recoverable.

These Are the Things Youll Get to Do:

Own the reliability and operation of critical compute and data platforms.

Design deploy and maintain Linux infrastructure including NixOS-based systems.

Build reproducible system configurations and deployment workflows using Nix and infrastructure-as-code.

Develop reusable NixOS modules packages flakes and system configurations.

Improve platform resilience fault tolerance recoverability and maintainability.

Build monitoring logging alerting and observability capabilities that help us understand system behavior before customers notice problems.

Diagnose difficult failures across Linux networking storage containers and distributed systems.

Automate repetitive operational tasks and eliminate configuration drift.

Design and build security and maintainability components for deployed systems.

Help define operational standards deployment practices upgrade strategies and disaster-recovery procedures.

Perform capacity planning and identify performance bottlenecks across compute storage and networking.

Own solutions spanning CNO analytics security infrastructure and field deployments.

Learn new skills and teach the rest of us what you know.

Minimum Qualifications:

Enthusiasm for learning new stuff.

Bachelors degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering a related field or amazing equivalent skills.

Strong experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems.

Experience with Linux networking storage and file systems.

Experience automating system configuration and deployment.

Experience with Nix and/or NixOS in production lab or significant personal environments.

Python Go Bash or similar scripting/programming experience of 2 years.

Ability to debug complex systems methodically across multiple layers of the stack.

Nice-to-Have Qualifications:

Deep experience with NixOS including custom modules overlays flakes packaging and reproducible deployments.

Experience operating fleets of Linux systems.

Infrastructure-as-code experience with Nix Terraform Ansible or similar tooling.

Experience designing highly available or fault-tolerant systems.

Monitoring and observability experience with tools such as Prometheus Grafana Loki OpenTelemetry Elasticsearch or similar systems.

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