About RivianRivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever. This goes for the emissions-free Electric Adventure Vehicles we build, and the curious, courageous souls we seek to attract.
As a company, we constantly challenge what's possible, never simply accepting what has always been done. We reframe old problems, seek new solutions and operate comfortably in areas that are unknown. Our backgrounds are diverse, but our team shares a love of the outdoors and a desire to protect it for future generations.
Role SummaryThis Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) role owns reliability outcomes for factory digital systems spanning compute, network, and application layers. The work is split across Platform Engineering, Observability, and Tiger Team incident response. This position will be located in Normal, IL and report to our Sr. Manager, Software Infrastructure/DevOps.
ResponsibilitiesPlatform Engineering- Design and evolve reliable, scalable, and secure platform foundations across hybrid/on-prem factory environments (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS, vSphere/ESXi, Linux/Windows server, industrial PCs), with clear reliability and cost guardrails.
- Codify production-readiness standards and guardrails for factory systems (health checks, runbooks, SLOs/SLIs, deployment safety, failover patterns) aligned to Platform's production readiness checklist.
- Advance Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration automation (e.g., Terraform/Terragrunt, Ansible) for factory workloads, including provisioning, secrets, policies, and change safety.
- Partner with Manufacturing Engineering, Factory IT, Security, and Networking to land pragmatic, operable designs; contribute to reference architectures and reusable patterns.
- Lead or contribute to reliability initiatives (e.g., self-healing automation, safe rollouts/canaries, rollback strategies) appropriate to level.
Observability- Raise the bar on end-to-end telemetry for factory systems: high-signal metrics, logs, traces, and SLO-driven alerts (e.g., PrometheGrafana, Loki/Tempo, Datadog, Splunk).
- Establish consistent dashboards and service health views for shop/line-level systems, including exporters for hypervisor/VM health and plant endpoints where feasible (e.g., vSphere exporters).
- Improve alert quality and ownership: reduce noise, align escalation policies, and ensure actionable runbooks and health checks for critical services.
- Build internal tooling (CLI/SDKs, operators/controllers, remediation bots) that turns telemetry into prevention and rapid response.
Tiger Team / Incident Response - Act as technical incident responder for factory-impacting events; lead fast triage, stabilize services.
- Drive post-incident reviews that eliminate repeat failure modes; improve MTTR and availability through durable engineering fixes and process improvements.
- Drill on-call readiness, escalation policies, and schedules using established incident tooling and practices (e.g., Rootly/alternatives), tuned for 24x7 manufacturing operations.
- Mentor peers through reliability deep dives, failover exercises, and simulation runbooks (breadth of mentorship scales with level).
Qualifications- Production experience in SRE/Platform/DevOps or Operations, owning availability, performance, and cost for critical services.
- Strength in several of: Kubernetes/EKS and container networking; AWS primitives for resilient platforms; vSphere/ESXi and virtualization; Linux (and working Windows Server) administration; service discovery, load balancing, and DNS.
- Observability across metrics/logs/traces, SLO/error-budget practice, and alert hygiene with tools like PrometheGrafana, Loki/Tempo, Datadog, Splunk.
- Production change safety: GitOps, progressive delivery, guardrails in CI/CD (GitLab preferred), automated rollbacks, and policy-as-code.
- Infrastructure automation: Terraform/Terragrunt, Ansible, scripting (Python/Bash), secrets management, and least-privilege patterns.
- Incident leadership/participation in 24x7 environments; clear comms under pressure and a habit of converting learnings into durable fixes.
- Ability to partner across Factory IT, Manufacturing Engineering, Security, Networking, and application teams; communicate tradeoffs simply and drive decisions.
Nice to have- Industrial/OT-adjacent experience (lineside HMIs, MES/SCADA integrations, PLC interfaces, ruggedized compute) and shop-floor networking constraints.
- Experience building or integrating exporters (e.g., vSphere) or consolidating factory telemetry into plant-wide health views.
- DR playbooks, capacity modeling, and cost/performance optimization for hybrid environments.
Pay DisclosureSalary Range: $199,300 - 249,100 (actual compensation will be determined based on experience, location, and other factors permitted by law).
Salary Range for this role is$199,300 - $249,100 for Illinois and Georgia based applicants. This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee's position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, specific competencies, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, shift, and organizational needs.
The successful candidate may be eligible for annual performance bonus and equity awards.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time employees, their spouse or domestic partner, and children up to age 26, including but not limited to paid vacation, paid sick leave, and a competitive portfolio of insurance benefits including life, medical, dental, vision, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance to eligible employees. You may also have the opportunity to participate in Rivian's 401(k) Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Program if you meet certain eligibility requirements. Full-time employee coverage is effective on their first day of employment. Part-time employee coverage is effective the first of the month following 90 days of employment. More information about benefits is available at rivianbenefits.com.
You can apply for this role through careers.rivian.com (or through internal-careers-rivian.icims.com if you are a current employee). This job is not expected to be closed any sooner than February 6, 2026.
Equal OpportunityRivian is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information or characteristics, physical or mental disability, marital/domestic partner status, age, military/veteran status, medical condition, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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