Site Reliability Engineer

About the Company

Outpost is building the backbone of freight, reinventing supply chain infrastructure with carrier-agnostic truck terminals. As a vertically integrated real estate, operations, and technology company, Outpost acquires and operates mission-critical real estate to serve the world's largest logistics providers.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability targets across backend/API, worker services, applications, and CV pipelines
• Level up monitoring and alerting, and build out auto-remediation systems
• Partner with engineering to build agents that triage alerts and handle routine remediation
• Harden and optimize GCP infrastructure (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, GCS) for cost and performance
• Own database scale and performance, including connection pooling, query optimization, and capacity planning
• Improve the reliability of ML training and monitoring infrastructure
• Run blameless postmortems and drive fixes for root causes
• Participate in on-call rotation

Requirements

• 4+ years in an SRE, infrastructure, or backend engineering role with production on-call ownership
• Deep experience with a major cloud provider, preferably GCP
• Experience building monitoring, alerting, and observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, etc.)
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python or Bash
• Proficiency with containerized workloads (Docker) and CI/CD pipelines
• Proven track record of reducing incident volume or improving reliability metrics
• Strong English communication skills for clear writing and asynchronous engagement

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with ML/data infrastructure, training pipelines, or model monitoring
• Experience building or integrating AI agents for operational automation
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform
• PostgreSQL performance tuning at scale
• Background supporting physical/IoT systems or edge devices
• Experience with bare-metal infrastructure and colocation environments