Site Reliability Engineer
About Us
Asylon automates security operations using robots, software, and AI in order to help its customers protect their people, property, and assets. Asylon was founded in 2015 by three MIT aerospace engineers who have worked on a variety of projects in the aerospace industry from the V-22 Osprey to commercial jet engines to defense systems on Navy destroyers. With our team's strong background in aerospace, Asylon develops products consistent with the quality standards demanded by commercial and military customers. Today, Asylon is a dynamic team that is passionate about robots and committed to building and operating safe, high quality products that solve the greatest challenges facing the robotics and security industries.
We are building a diverse team that creates novel solutions and provides previously unrealized services via robotics. The Asylon team is perfect for those who wish to apply their expertise to revolutionize the robotics industry while expanding their own skillsets.
Our Product - Robotic Perimeter Security
Asylon develops field deployable infrastructure for automated robots to augment the security teams of our clients. We believe that the true advantages of robotics and automation come when we can have robots and humans working hand-in-hand to increase security and help save lives. We see robots as a means to deliver actionable, timely, and persistent intelligence. DroneCore, our full stack aerial and ground robotics solution, is revolutionizing the way the security industry operates by providing capabilities to security teams that they have never had before.
Position
Asylon is hiring a site reliability engineer to join our Philadelphia team. You'll be responsible for the reliability, availability, and performance of systems that span cloud infrastructure, on-prem servers in airgapped customer environments, and Kubernetes clusters running on edge devices deployed with our robots in the field. You'll define and maintain SLOs, build observability into every layer of the stack, lead incident response, and drive the automation that keeps our systems running without manual intervention. This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure engineering and operations — you should be as comfortable writing code to eliminate toil as you are triaging an outage on a remote edge device.
Due to the nature of the projects worked on in this position, applicants must be a U.S. Person as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.62. This includes U.S. Citizens, lawful permanent residents, refugees, or asylees.
Primary Duties
- Own the reliability of production systems across cloud, on-prem, and edge environments — define SLOs, track error budgets, and drive improvements
- Build and maintain observability infrastructure — monitoring, alerting, logging, and dashboards — to provide visibility into system health at every layer
- Lead incident response, conduct blameless post-mortems, and implement remediation to prevent recurrence
- Develop automation to reduce toil, improve deployment reliability, and enable self-healing infrastructure
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for service deployment, testing, and infrastructure provisioning
- Manage Kubernetes clusters (K3s on edge, on-prem, and managed cloud clusters) — deployments, upgrades, and troubleshooting
- Manage infrastructure-as-code for reproducible provisioning across cloud and airgapped on-prem environments
- Collaborate with software and robotics engineers to build reliability into systems from the design phase
Required Skills and Experience
- 3+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering
- Strong with a high-level language such as Python, Go, or Bash for building automation and tooling
- Proficient with Kubernetes — deploying, operating, debugging, and scaling containerized workloads
- Experience building and operating observability stacks — Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar monitoring, alerting, and logging tools
- Background in CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deploying services
- Proficient with Linux systems administration and troubleshooting
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as OpenTofu, Terraform, or Ansible
- Comfortable with networking fundamentals — DNS, firewalls, VPNs, and debugging connectivity issues across distributed environments
Bonus Points
- Experience with K3s or lightweight Kubernetes on edge — running services on resource-constrained hardware in the field
- Has worked in airgapped or disconnected environments where systems must operate without cloud dependencies
- Experience with on-call rotations and structured incident management processes
- Familiarity with message brokers and streaming (MQTT, NATS, Kafka, or similar) for real-time data pipelines
- Has worked with robotics or IoT systems, particularly managing fleets of remote devices
- Experience with video streaming or processing pipelines in a production environment
- Comfortable getting hands-on with hardware — you don't need to be an embedded expert, but you should be the kind of person who's built robots in a college club, tinkered with a Raspberry Pi, or isn't afraid to plug into a serial console and debug a device on a bench
- Experience with Bazel or similar build systems for managing complex, multi-language codebases
- Experience with capacity planning and performance engineering
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity packages
401(k) and 401(k) matching
Flexible vacation/sick time
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Relocation assistance
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Asylon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, employ, train, promote, and compensate individuals based on job related qualifications and abilities. At Asylon we have a longstanding policy of providing a work environment that respects the dignity and worth of each individual and is free from all forms of discrimination, including harassment, because of race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
We are an inclusive organization and actively promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. We welcome all applications from a wide range of candidates. Selection for roles will be based on qualifications, merit, and business need alone.
Pay: $118,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Application Question(s):
- Are you a "U.S. Person" is defined in 22 C.F.R. § 120.62 to include individuals who are U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, or certain protected individuals, as well as U.S. government entities and corporations or other entities organized in the United States.
Ability to Commute:
- Norristown, PA 19401 (Preferred)
Work Location: In person
