About the Federal team:

Ditto is at the forefront of edge computing innovation, providing a powerful edge sync platform that enables seamless real-time data synchronization across devices. Ditto Federal, a wholly-owned subsidiary, focuses on delivering our cutting-edge solutions to the federal government, particularly the Department of Defense. Our mission is to leverage Ditto's core IP to create additional products and services that meet the unique needs of government customers. 

About the position:

Ditto aims to expand the internet beyond traditional reach. Our groundbreaking software empowers devices to synchronize data in real-time, using cutting-edge, peer-to-peer database technology that runs on mobile, web, IoT, and server systems, automatically syncing data changes.  Help us ignite the future of data synchronization as a Site Reliability Engineer at Ditto! We are seeking a passionate site reliability engineer (SRE) to help us automate and operate deployments.

The ideal candidate has professional experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures, continuous delivery, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code.

You will be a part of our Federal team, working with all of engineering on building new services, automating infrastructure lifecycle on Kubernetes, and monitoring and supporting our services with the goal of offering a reliable, scalable and high-performance database.

As a Site Reliability Engineer you will:

• Build & design Ditto’s cloud-to-edge infrastructure with reliability and performance in mind
• Build tools & services to allow automated infrastructure management and self-healing, including deployments and upgrades
• Support the end-to-end monitoring and maintenance of our Federal deployments
• Participate in on-call rotations, keeping customer workloads running and incident free

What you’ll need:

• At least 3+ years of experience in an SRE-like role
• Ability to work on a 100% distributed team, collaborating on GitHub/GitLab and Slack
• Strong experience with public and government cloud and edge providers
• Experience running highly-scalable production workloads reliably on Kubernetes
• Experience with monitoring at scale
• Experience managing infrastructure predictably through GitOps and IaC
• Solid programming and scripting skills
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation
• Excellent written communication skills
• A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• U.S. Citizenship and ability to acquire and maintain an active security clearance

Nice to Haves: 

• Strong understanding of container runtimes, Kubernetes and Helm
• Experience running stateful workloads in Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, RKE2)
• Experience operating a SaaS platform in airgapped environments
• Experience with authentication systems (e.g., OAUTH, KeyCloak, etc.)
• Fluency in multiple programming languages (e.g., Go, Rust or Python)
• Experience with Kafka, min.io/S3, and other enterprise integration tools
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo