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Staff Site Reliability Engineer

9/16/2025

The Site Reliability Engineer will collect requirements, design and implement highly available systems, and coordinate work across multiple teams. This role will also drive improvements to existing systems and introduce automation and integrations to ensure rapid response and scalability.

Salary

130000 - 175000 USD

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
Redwood Materials is building the U.S. stockpile of critical materials and deploying large-scale energy storage. Founded by JB Straubel, the company produces lithium, nickel, cobalt, copper, and cathode active material at scale in the U.S., manufactures key components for advanced batteries, and deploys energy storage systems that power data centers and the nation’s grid. Redwood is expanding domestic capacity for next-generation energy storage and strengthening U.S. energy dominance.
About the Role
<div class="content-intro"><div class="page"> <div class="section"> <div class="layoutArea"> <div class="column"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Redwood Materials</strong></span></p> <div> <p><strong>Redwood is localizing a global battery supply chain that seamlessly integrates recovery, reuse, and recycling&nbsp;</strong><strong>—&nbsp;</strong><strong>keeping critical minerals in circulation and driving the&nbsp;energy transition. Founded in 2019,</strong><strong>&nbsp;we’re delivering low-cost and large-scale energy storage and producing battery materials in the U.S. for the first time, all from batteries we already have.</strong></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div><p><strong><span data-teams="true">Staff Site Reliability Engineer</span></strong></p> <p><strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215}">Essential Duties:</span></strong></p> <p><span data-teams="true">We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Site Reliability Engineer to collect requirements, design &amp; implement highly available systems &amp; solutions, coordinate work across multiple teams, drive improvements to existing systems, introduce automation, integrations, and ensure appropriate monitoring &amp; alerting is in place for rapid response. This role will collaborate, assist with, lead projects &amp; drive initiatives to ensure Redwood Materials has resilient systems in place to scale at a rapid pace to a global enterprise.</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities will include:&nbsp;</span></strong><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215}">&nbsp;</span></p> <ul> <li>Collect business &amp; technical requirements and work with cross-functional teams to establish SLOs</li> <li>Design effective on-premise &amp; hybrid systems &amp; solutions with high availability &amp; scalability, utilizing platform technologies including vSphere, Kubernetes, Linux, Windows.</li> <li>Coordinate work across IT, Software, Industrial Controls, Engineering &amp; Business teams to implement complete systems &amp; ensure business needs are met.</li> <li>Identify opportunities to automate deployment &amp; management of IT infrastructure &amp; systems to reduce manual efforts and speed recovery.</li> <li>Develop integrations that streamline use &amp; visibility of data across components to deliver complete, efficient systems providing excellent utility &amp; ease of use.</li> <li>Support deployed systems responding to incidents, leading fast triage, troubleshoot issues, and participate in an on-call rotation.</li> <li>Lead post-incident reviews and drive improvements to eliminate repeat failure modes</li> </ul> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Desired Qualifications:</span><span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:true,&quot;134233118&quot;:true,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215}">&nbsp;</span></strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree in information technology or any related field.</li> <li>2+ years in an SRE related role, and 5+ years in an IT Systems related role</li> <li>Experience administering IT Infrastructure such as VMware, Active Directory, Windows Server, Linux, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure (AWS, Azure), Load balancing &amp; Monitoring</li> <li>Expertise in scripting, coding, automation, and integration with tools such as Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, REST, YAML, JSON, etc</li> <li>Experience working with SCADA, OT, MES, or other industrial related software &amp; systems is preferred.</li> <li>Experience with DR playbooks, capacity modeling, and cost/performance optimization in hybrid environments</li> <li>Self-motivated, hands-on mindset, with a willingness to contribute at all levels.</li> <li>A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!</li> </ul> <p><strong>Physical Requirements:</strong> &nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Ability to perform the essential job functions consistent safely and successfully with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.</li> <li>Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state, and local standards&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Working Conditions:&nbsp;</strong>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Environment, such as office or outdoors.</li> <li>Ability to work in challenging working conditions which may include exposure to noise, dust, chemicals, and temperature extremes, while protected by PPE, for extended periods of time.&nbsp;</li> <li>Essential physical requirements, such as climbing, standing, stooping, or typing.&nbsp;</li> <li>Occasional work weekends, nights, or be on-call as a regular part of the job.&nbsp;</li> <li>Occasional travel requirements.</li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="description"><p><span data-teams="true"><span class="ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak">In accordance with California pay transparency laws, the salary range for this position is listed below. Actual compensation may vary based on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and skills.&nbsp;</span></span></p></div><div class="title">California Pay Range:</div><div class="pay-range"><span>$168,500</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>$276,000 USD</span></div></div></div><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The position is full-time. Compensation will be commensurate with experience.</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We collect personal information (PI) from you in connection with your application for employment with Redwood Materials, including the following categories of PI: identifiers, personal records, professional or employment information, and inferences drawn from your PI. We collect your PI for our purposes, including performing services and operations related to your potential employment. If you have additional privacy-related questions, please contact us at privacy@redwoodmaterials.com.</span></p></div>
Key Skills
Site Reliability EngineeringDevOpsIT InfrastructureVMwareActive DirectoryWindows ServerLinuxNetworkingCloud InfrastructureAWSAzureScriptingAutomationIntegrationSCADAMESSustainability
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