Principal Site Reliability Engineer

We’re Blue River, a team of innovators driven to create intelligent machinery that solves monumental problems for our customers. We empower our customers – farmers, construction crews, and foresters - to implement safer and more sustainable solutions, driving increased profitability with less reliance on scarce labor. We believe that focusing on the small stuff – pixel-by-pixel and task-by-task - leads to big gains. With our partners at John Deere, we have the ability to bring innovative computer vision, machine learning, robotics, and product management solutions to scale production, maximizing their potential impact.

Our people are at the heart of what we do. Through cross-discipline collaboration, this mission-driven and daring team is eager to define the new frontier of mobile robotics. We are always asking hard questions, rapidly iterating, and getting our boots in the field and on-site to figure it out. We won’t give up until we’ve made a tangible and positive impact on the planet.

Summary

Blue River Technology is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer, working on the Platform team (SparkAI). SparkAI’s mission is to accelerate the proliferation of automation and robotics. We’re starting by addressing the most expensive and pervasive barrier to scale – AI edge cases – with an API-based service that resolves machine learning exceptions live, in production. This product today is powering many of the autonomy innovations happening at Blue River, enabling us to push the boundaries of how fast we can launch and scale revolutionary new products.

Job Responsibilities

The main job responsibilities are noted below. 

• Architect, scale, and take ownership of essential infrastructure.
• Build and maintain a Kubernetes-based platform supporting multiple teams and services.
• Build backend services (golang) to support autonomous systems.
• Work with product teams for the launch of new products on the platform.
• Grow our high-availability infrastructure while maintaining key metrics such as uptime.
• Build tooling to support our platform and development teams.
• Perform end-to-end performance analysis, identify areas for improvement, and implement robust solutions.
• Work with cloud vendors and external technical support for upgrades and rapid resolution of problems.
• In collaboration with the security team, conduct regular risk assessments.
• Maintain risk register, develop and implement mitigations plan.
• Assess intrusion detection alerts. Improve systems and services that digest threat feeds.
• In collaboration with IT and purchasing teams, ensure the payment process of each SaaS service is established and maintained.

Required Experience and Skills

• 6+ years of experience building and maintaining infrastructure for data-intensive high availability applications.
• Understanding of cloud orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Terraform.
• 4 years of experience building and maintaining public cloud solutions.
• Understanding of software design methodologies, information systems architecture, object-oriented design, and software design patterns.
• Understanding aspects of securing cloud infrastructure.
• Experience in 1 or more of the following languages: Golang (preference), Python, Javascript, Rust.

You will love this job if you

• Are interested in robotic applications, and developing software that assists robots.
• Want to join a fun, fast-moving engineering team.
• Are excited about robotics, and the future of automation.
• Are a self-starter with infectious enthusiasm, energy, and problem-solving abilities.

At Blue River, we’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity.  While we have more work to do to advance diversity and inclusion, we’re investing in our programs, including recruiting, mentorship, career development, and learning & development to ensure they support our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals. We support each employee in living a full life, enabling a thriving career, and accomplishing a meaningful, challenging mission while collaborating with incredible people. We are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align completely with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway.

We are an equal-opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation. 

The US annual base salary range for this position is $166,000 - $293,000, along with eligibility for Blue River’s bonus and benefit programs.

Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process. During the recruitment process, we may identify an alternative role or level to which you are more suited. If your ideal role at Blue River differs from the advertised position, we will provide an updated pay range as soon as possible during the hiring process.