Description
Kudu Dynamics is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to help build reliable systems. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work across infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, distributed storage, observability, security, and deployment automation.
The ideal candidate will have experience with Nix and NixOS, and be able to build reproducible system configurations and deployment workflows using infrastructure-as-code.
Responsibilities:
- Own the reliability and operation of critical compute and data platforms
- Design, deploy, and maintain Linux infrastructure, including NixOS-based systems
- Build reproducible system configurations and deployment workflows using Nix and infrastructure-as-code
- Develop reusable NixOS modules, packages, flakes, and system configurations
- Improve platform resilience, fault tolerance, recoverability, and maintainability
- Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities
- Diagnose difficult failures across Linux, networking, storage, containers, and distributed systems
- Automate repetitive operational tasks and eliminate configuration drift
- Design and build security and maintainability components for deployed systems
- Help define operational standards, deployment practices, upgrade strategies, and disaster-recovery procedures
- Perform capacity planning and identify performance bottlenecks across compute, storage, and networking
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- Strong experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems
- Experience with Linux networking, storage, and file systems
- Experience automating system configuration and deployment
- Experience with Nix and/or NixOS in production, lab, or significant personal environments
- Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting/programming experience of 2+ years
- Ability to debug complex systems methodically across multiple layers of the stack
Nice-to-have qualifications:
- Deep experience with NixOS, including custom modules, overlays, flakes, packaging, and reproducible deployments
- Experience operating fleets of Linux systems
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Nix, Terraform, Ansible, or similar tooling
- Experience designing highly available or fault-tolerant systems
- Monitoring and observability experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch, or similar systems