About this opportunity
General Matter lists this DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer opportunity in los angeles, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
About The Company
General Matter is enriching uranium in America.
Our mission is to restore our country’s ability to make nuclear fuel. Our fuel will help power AI, manufacturing, and other critical industries. It will power our next generation of reactors. Ultimately, it will power our national ambitions.
We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and we are backed by top tier investors.
Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production.
We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability and transparency.
DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer
We are seeking a highly capable DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate the software systems underpinning uranium enrichment R&D and production infrastructure. This role is foundational to our reliability, safety, and developer velocity. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining observability, alerting, and developer productivity systems, and for ensuring that critical internal and production services are correctly instrumented and monitored. We are only interested in candidates with strong fundamentals, sound judgment, and the ability to operate with rigor in a production environment where failures matter.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and maintain observability and alerting systems across critical services and infrastructure
Ensure all production and internal services are properly instrumented with metrics, logs, and traces
Own and maintain developer productivity tools, CI/CD systems, and internal platforms
Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents with urgency and discipline
Lead incident reviews and drive long-term reliability improvements
Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil and improve system resilience
Basic Qualifications
Strong fundamentals in web service development and distributed systems
Solid understanding of networking concepts, DNS, TLS/certificate management, and HTTP
Experience operating and debugging production systems
Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and incident response
Ability to write clear, maintainable code and automation scripts
Demonstrated ownership, attention to detail, and sound technical judgment
Preferred Skills And Experience
Experience with modern observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling at scale
Experience supporting safety-critical or high-reliability systems
Strong debugging skills across application, OS, and network boundaries
Prior on-call experience in a production environment
Additional Requirements
Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
Equal Opportunity Employer
General Matter is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with General Matter is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
Compensation And Benefits
The base salary range for this role is $100,000–$200,000 annually.
Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. Please note that the stated salary range is an estimate and may be adjusted based on market conditions, business needs, or other factors. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
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Worksite address
los angeles, CA, 90079, US
Who can apply
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