Site Reliability Engineer Network Team
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Job Location:
Auckland - New Zealand
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
About the role
At Halter were building more than software - were 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 Zealands largest private IoT networks with 400000 connected devices and counting.
Were looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help scale our systems to a million animals and beyond. Youll 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 isnt your average backend gig - this one moos . Youre not just writing code youre ensuring availability for hundreds of thousands of animals and farmers who rely on Halter every single day.
What youll 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 were 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 routing VPNs firewalls) RF awareness (LoRa/LTE/sat a plus).
- Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus Grafana ELK OpenTelemetry).
- Proven incident management for high-availability systems.
- Performance tuning for latency-sensitive unreliable-link environments.
- Comfortable in Linux across cloud and edge devices.
- Data-driven: able to turn noisy telemetry into decisions (SQL or Jupyter a plus).
- Pragmatic problem-solver who balances reliability speed and cost.
- Bonus: IoT/off-grid/field deployments experience.
- Network awareness (baseline not deep-dive) You dont need to be a routing/RF guru we have those. You should be comfortable with:
- Basic L3 troubleshooting: ping/traceroute IP/subnetting DNS/DHCP/NAT basics reading simple routes.
- Reading link health: interpreting RSSI/SNR (LoRa) or RSRP/SINR (LTE) at a high level; spotting link looks bad vs service is bad.
- Backhaul pragmatics: understanding failover states (cellular satellite) cost/perf trade-offs and safe config rollout patterns.
- Topology literacy: knowing what a gateway/tower/backhaul path looks like and where to put probes and alerts.
Why our team loves working at Halter
At Halter were committed to creating an environment where people thrive. We offer unlimited paid annual leave as well as additional wellness days. Each year every team member receives a $1000 self-development budget to invest in whatever fuels their personal growth.
We offer six months of fully paid leave for primary caregivers and four weeks of fully paid leave for secondary caregivers along with a range of additional family-friendly benefits. To support your wellbeing we offer subsidised health insurance through Southern Cross.
And finally everyone at Halter is an owner. Every employee is part of our stock ownership plan; when we succeed you share in that success.
Our office-first approach
Being office-first is a core pillar of our culture. We believe in-person connections are key to driving your own growth learning impact and building genuine long-lasting relationships.
Were office first not office only. This means that working from the office every day is our default setting but we flex when needed. Your growth learning and impact are truly unlimited here and a big part of that comes from being together solving problems innovating building context and constantly learning from each other.
We have a state-of-the-art dog-friendly office in the heart of Auckland City and a test farm in Morrinsville. Delicious snacks and drinks are readily available.
About Halter
At Halter were 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 and revolutionizing grazing with Halter. People join Halter to do meaningful work. Our team out-think out-work and out-care. Were committed to delivering real change in the world. Were backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including Bessemer Venture Partners DCVC Blackbird Promus Ventures Rocket Labs Peter Beck and Icehouse Ventures.
Join our team
If this opportunity sounds like you please apply below by sending your cover letter explaining why youre excited about this role and working at Halter along with your CV.
If you think you have what it takes but dont necessarily meet every requirement on this job description please still get in touch. Wed love to chat to see if youll be an epic fit!
Feel free to check out the careers page for more information on working at Halter and dont forget to follow us on LinkedIn & Instagram.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
Key Skills
- Kubernetes
- FMEA
- Continuous Improvement
- Elasticsearch
- Go
- Root cause Analysis
- Maximo
- CMMS
- Maintenance
- Mechanical Engineering
- Manufacturing
- Troubleshooting
About Company
Manage your pasture, virtually fence and shift your cows, monitor their health and detect heats. All through solar-powered collars and an easy-to-use app. Trusted by over 1000+ farmers.
