Lead SRE Engineer

Working to solve our climate crisis is the most important mission of our time, and the most exciting problem to be working on. Overstory’s mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation. Today, we proudly partner with 40+ leading utilities worldwide, including 4 of the top 10 US utilities, to help reduce wildfire risk and increase grid reliability to prevent power outages.

We have already proven our business model and we’re all united behind our ambitious vision to scale up this model to help humanity and the planet. We closed a $14 million Series A, led by B Capital and welcoming The Nature Conservancy to our collective of climate-minded investors. This milestone includes additional investment and continued support from Convective Capital, Semapa Next, Bentley iTwin Ventures, Pale blue dot, CapitalT, Moxxie Ventures, and Overwater Ventures

If you want to have a real impact and solve some of the world's most complex challenges with advanced technology, come work with our talented and passionate team. Overstory is a remote-first company, with people living all over the U.S. and Europe.

Your responsibilities

As our first Site Reliability Engineer, you will contribute to the evolution of the strategic management of our GCP infrastructure, and of DevOps practices like incident management, SLOs and error budgets. You will champion observability as a way to improve mean time to recover and use DORA metrics to help the Product & Engineering team to get better at creating amazing products, and help other teams to optimize the use of GCP and manage cost.

Our stack

We rely heavily on the following technologies:

Terraform for our infrastructure code.

Python to write our application code

Postgres for most persistent data storage

Docker to run our services

Dagster to schedule workloads

GCP for our cloud hosting

Requirements

You are able to prioritize collaboratively between tactical problems and strategic direction.

You are comfortable and effective working in a terminal in a Unix-based environment

You are confident in driving Infrastructure-As-Code principles.

You are confident in driving advanced CI/CD principles across the organization, with the right balance between centralization and decentralization of responsibilities and checks

You know when to use the right technical tool for the job at hand.

You have strong communication skills and are comfortable expressing your ideas to multiple different audiences

You are proactive with a positive attitude, well organised, and adept at managing competing deadlines and priorities

You are comfortable with and excited by a fast-paced and often changing environment, eager to solve new problems and learn new skills in order to succeed

You have a self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so

Teamwork is at your core, and you like to help others grow and succeed.

You are familiar with data pipelines, workload schedulers (e.g. Airflow, Dagster), and AI-ops processes (e.g. CICD for machine learning)

Ability to work in an async-first environment

You live in one of the following countries: the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Estonia, Portugal, France or Sweden.

Nice-to-haves

You can demonstrate experience scaling large distributed architectures.

You have experience in working in a remote-first environment.

You have worked with satellite data and/or imagery.

What you get

To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.

Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days around our lives, not the other way around.

Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time to develop new skills.

To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.

Equity and a competitive salary.

About our team

We are a group of 60 people from all over the world. Twelve nationalities are represented in our team. We meet up once a year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.

Diversity & Inclusion

We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.

We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 47% of the overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Indonesian, Cantonese, Estonian and Korean.

Our values

Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission.

We act with urgency.

Our curiosity fuels our growth.

We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.

We’re rooted in diversity.

Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our differences.

We care for each other.

We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.

Trust is fundamental.

We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a positive impact.