Joblaze summary

The Site Reliability Engineer at Specter is responsible for ensuring the operational health of a fleet of connected sensors, addressing issues in the field, and building systems to enhance reliability. Key skills include strong Linux administration, experience with edge hardware and cloud infrastructure, and proficiency in scripting languages like Python or Go. This role is ideal for someone with a solid background in systems engineering and a knack for troubleshooting complex environments. Specter, a small but rapidly growing team, emphasizes a hands-on approach to operational challenges in the realm of physical AI.

Joblaze insights

Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 26, 2026. Last confirmed on Specter's careers page October 26, 2026.
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Quick facts

What's the tech stack?: Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AWS, Docker, Go, Kubernetes, Linux, Python.
What seniority level is this role?: Specter targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?: Full-time for this Site Reliability Engineer role at Specter.

From the original posting

The Role
We're hiring a Site Reliability Engineer to own the operational health of our connected sensor platform — spanning a live fleet of edge hardware deployed at customer sites and the cloud infrastructure behind it.

This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of ops and platform engineering. You'll drive reliability across our sensor fleet — triaging issues in the field, building the systems that prevent them from recurring, and owning the observability that keeps us ahead of problems as we scale.

You set your own priorities across all three:
Responsibilities:
Reactive — Triage & Recovery

Debug and triage issues across a live fleet of diverse Linux-based sensor nodes and edge appliances deployed at customer sites.
SSH into field hardware to diagnose, patch, and recover systems — often with limited remote access and incomplete information.
Own site bring-ups end to end; be the person who gets things back online.

Systems Builder — Close the Loop

Build and maintain fleet management systems: OTA update pipelines, device health tracking, remote diagnostics, and lifecycle tooling.
Identify repeat fires and eliminate them — build tooling, pre-deployment checks, and root cause processes that prevent recurrence.
Automate toil relentlessly: if you're doing something twice, you should be scripting it.
Collaborate with embedded systems, and platform teams to define reliability and deployment requirements.

Observability Owner — Fleet Visibility

Design and implement observability (logging, metrics, alerting) across edge devices and cloud infrastructure (AWS).
Surface and close telemetry gaps; build fleet-wide visibility that enables data-driven reliability decisions.
Develop runbooks, incident response procedures, and participate in on-call rotations.

Qualifications:

Strong Linux systems administration — comfortable working over SSH in production, not just dev environments.
Experience with edge or on-prem hardware alongside cloud infrastructure.
Solid networking fundamentals: DNS, firewalls, VPNs, subnets, secure remote access.
Scripting or programming in Python, Go, or Bash for operational tooling.
Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes a plus).
Embedded systems experience — reading firmware logs, understanding hardware-software boundaries, and reasoning about what's happening below the OS is a meaningful edge in this role.
Deeper cloud experience (AWS infrastructure, IAM, networking, observability tooling) is a strong plus for owning the cloud side of the fleet.
Rust or C experience — we have firmware in both; being able to read and reason about low-level code accelerates triage significantly.

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Site Reliability Engineer

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