Site Reliability Engineer - Network Team

Site Reliability Engineer - Network Team ABOUT HALTER At Halter, we’re on a mission to enable farmers and graziers to run the most productive and sustainable operations. Our customers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional practices. Imagine watching 500 cattle stand up and walk calmly towards their next break? No quad bikes, no dogs, no fences. Just a group of cattle walking at their own pace. People say it looks like magic. Our customers are revolutionizing grazing with Halter. It's changing lives and transforming an industry. People join Halter to do meaningful work. By joining us you’ll be solving challenging problems within a talented team and a culture built for high performance. Our team out-think, out-work and out-care. We’re committed to delivering real change in the world - this isn’t easy, and in truth, we love that it’s hard. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Founders Fund https://foundersfund.com, Bessemer Venture Partners https://www.bvp.com/, BOND, https://www.bondcap.com/ DCVC https://www.dcvc.com/, Blackbird https://www.blackbird.vc/, Promus Ventures https://www.promusventures.com/, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures https://www.icehouseventures.co.nz/?utm_term=icehouse%20ventures&utm_campaign=Brand+Keywords&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=4064636360&hsa_cam=16902737884&hsa_grp=134004309485&hsa_ad=592971340272&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=kwd-1082530126230&hsa_kw=icehouse%20ventures&hsa_mt=b&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2v-gBhC1ARIsAOQdKY0J0DepRVFDmjQlAkJPbZuQnLSA5UVzUzOXYiPxkjX-SeVa513_BhkaAr-MEALw_wcB. To find out more, visit our LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/halter-limited & Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeathalter/. ABOUT THE ROLE At Halter, we’re building more than software - we’re transforming the way the world farms. Our smart collars let farmers shift, monitor, and care for their cattle via deep integrations & insights. Behind it all is the Network Team, powering one of New Zealand’s largest private IoT networks with 400,000+ connected devices and counting.We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help scale our systems to a million animals and beyond. You’ll apply cloud-scale NRE practices to a wildly distributed, rural IoT network across multiple countries.Our vision is to become the OS for farming globally. This isn’t your average backend gig - this one moos 🐮. You’re not just writing code — you’re ensuring availability for hundreds of thousands of animals and farmers who rely on Halter every single day. WHAT YOU'LL DO - 📈 Build & run observability for gateways, towers, and backend/edge services (metrics, logs, tracing, alerts; strong signal / low noise). - 🤖 Automate ops: golden configs, zero-touch provisioning, safe canaries/rollbacks, scheduled maintenance, and self-healing where sensible. - 🚨 Lead incidents end-to-end (runbooks, comms, mitigation, post-mortems) and drive fixes into code, configs, and process. - 🚀 Harden deploys: progressive rollouts for firmware/agent/service changes across thousands of devices and multi-region backends. - ⚙️ Performance tuning: reduce command/telemetry latency, smooth OTA pipelines, and de-risk noisy/unreliable links with back-pressure & retries. - 🧭 Capacity & readiness: plan headroom for spikes and growth; chaos engineering for failover paths (cellular ↔ satellite, region failover). - 📘 Own runbooks & SOPs that enable field teams and on-call to respond quickly and consistently. - 🤝 Partner with Network/RF engineers on coverage/capacity changes, interference hunts, and carrier/satellite escalations. - 🧭 Mentor teammates on SRE mindset, tools, and operational excellence. WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 🧰 SRE/large-scale ops experience (cloud + distributed systems). - 💻 Strong automation & scripting (Python/Go/etc.) and IaC (Terraform/Ansible/etc.). - 📡 Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, rout ... (truncated, view full listing at source)