About the job
About BRINC:
At BRINC, we are revolutionizing public safety with our groundbreaking suite of life-saving technologies. Our venture began with the design of drones and ruggedized throw phones, enabling access to hazardous environments and facilitating communication to defuse critical situations. Today, we have broadened our scope to include the establishment and deployment of 911 response networks, where drones are dispatched in response to emergency calls, providing real-time visual data that enhances safety and ensures de-escalation of incidents. Our innovative solutions are currently utilized by over 600 public safety agencies across the United States, and we have successfully secured over $150 million in funding from esteemed investors such as Index Ventures, Motorola Solutions, Sam Altman, Dylan Field, and Mike Volpe. At BRINC, our mission is to recruit top-tier talent to support first responders in their life-saving efforts.
About this Role:
As the Senior Site Reliability / DevOps Engineer, you will take charge of ensuring the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of our production systems. Your responsibilities will include constructing secure cloud infrastructure, automating processes, and developing deployment pipelines that power our global real-time services. You will collaborate closely with software, hardware, and autonomy teams to enhance system performance, incident management, and developer productivity.
Key Responsibilities:
You will be accountable for platform reliability, uptime, and on-call protocols for our worldwide real-time services.
Design and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and deployment systems.
Develop automation and internal tools to enhance developer efficiency and minimize manual tasks.
Implement observability solutions (metrics/logs/tracing), alerting mechanisms, and conduct incident response and postmortems.
Lead capacity planning, disaster recovery strategies, and optimize cost/performance ratios.
Collaborate across teams to support live drone data streaming and enhance customer workflows.
Qualifications:
BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field, with over 5 years of experience operating production systems and building infrastructure.
Solid software engineering foundation; proficient in writing production-quality code (Python/Node.js/JavaScript, etc.).
Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud architectures.
Proven track record of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and safe release processes.
Exceptional attention to detail concerning security, scalability, and performance aspects.

