Sr Site Reliability Engineer, Platform

<p>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 and 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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Blue River Technology is based in Santa Clara, CA. </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Summary</strong></span></p> <p>Blue River Technology is looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join its Platform organization, which is dedicated to accelerating the company-wide adoption and scaling of automation and robotics. The Platform's product is a set of API services and infrastructure designed to overcome scaling hurdles, such as operational complexity and system exceptions, thereby enabling the rapid launch and scaling of new autonomy innovations and products at Blue River. In this role, you will drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers across teams, and shape the direction of our platform.</p> <ul> <li><strong>Employment Type</strong>: Full-Time</li> <li><strong>Work Location</strong>: Remote in the United States. </li> <li><strong>Visa sponsorship</strong> is possible for this position. </li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Job Responsibilities</strong></span></p> <ul> <li>Architect, scale, and take ownership of essential infrastructure</li> <li>Build and maintain a Kubernetes based platform supporting multiple teams and services</li> <li>Build backend services and internal tooling (Golang) to support autonomous systems.</li> <li>Work with product teams for launch of new products on the platform</li> <li>Grow our high availability infrastructure while maintaining key metrics such as uptime</li> <li>Build tooling to support our platform and development teams</li> <li>Perform end-to-end performance analysis, identify areas for improvement and implement with robust solutions.</li> <li>Work with cloud vendors and external technical support for upgrades and rapid resolution of problems</li> <li>Participate in on-call rotation, triaging and resolving production incidents with thorough root cause analysis and postmortem documentation</li> <li>Design and maintain observability infrastructure — dashboards, alerts, and log aggregation — to ensure visibility into platform health and service performance</li> <li>In collaboration with the security team, conduct regular risk assessments</li> <li>Maintain risk register, develop and implement mitigation plans</li> <li>Assess intrusion detection alerts. Improve systems and services that digest threat feeds </li> <li>In collaboration with IT and purchasing teams, ensure payment process of each SaaS service is established and maintained</li> </ul> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><