Helion · 10 hours ago
Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Everett, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $190K/yr
8+ years expHelion is a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, focused on building the world's first fusion power plant. The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will be responsible for designing and maintaining resilient systems, leading incident responses, and mentoring junior engineers to ensure high operational standards.
EnergyEnvironmental EngineeringRenewable Energy
Responsibilities
Collaborate with engineering teams to design scalable, fault-tolerant systems that meet performance and reliability goals
Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs; implement error budgets and reliability metrics
Lead major incident responses, conduct root cause analyses, and drive postmortem processes
Build and maintain automation for deployments, monitoring, and infrastructure management using tools like Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
Develop and maintain observability platforms to ensure real-time system health tracking and proactive alerting
Forecast system demands and optimize performance through load testing and tuning
Collaborate with security teams to ensure infrastructure meets compliance and security standards
Guide junior engineers, promote best practices, and contribute to a culture of reliability and continuous improvement
Qualification
Required
8+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or infrastructure engineering roles
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field
Technical Proficiency: Advanced knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), container orchestration (Kubernetes), and scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash)
Infrastructure Expertise: Deep understanding of distributed systems, networking, and Linux internals
Problem Solving: Strong analytical skills for diagnosing complex system failures and performance bottlenecks
Collaboration: Excellent communication and cross-functional teamwork abilities
Benefits
Medical, Dental, and Vision plans for employees and their families
31 Days of PTO (21 vacation days and 10 sick days)
10 Paid holidays, plus company-wide winter break
Up to 5% employer 401(k) match
Short term disability, long term disability, and life insurance
Paid parental leave and support (up to 16 weeks)
Annual wellness stipend
Company
Helion
We are a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.04BKey Investors
Nucor CorporationSam AltmanDustin Moskovitz
2025-01-28Series F· $425M
2023-09-27Corporate Round· $35M
2021-11-05Series E· $500M
Leadership Team
David Kirtley
Founder and CEO
Chris Pihl
Co-Founder, CTO
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