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title: 'DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer at General Matter'
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# DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer at General Matter

- **Company:** General Matter
- **Location:** Los Angeles, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-01-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalmatter/jobs/5082179008

## Job description

## About the Company

General Matter is enriching uranium in America.

Our mission is to restore our country’s ability to make nuclear fuel. Our fuel will help power AI, manufacturing, and other critical industries. It will power our next generation of reactors. Ultimately, it will power our national ambitions.

We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and we are backed by top tier investors.

Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production.

We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability and transparency.

DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

We are seeking a highly capable DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer to help build and operate the software systems underpinning uranium enrichment R&D and production infrastructure. This role is foundational to our reliability, safety, and developer velocity. You will be responsible for designing and maintaining observability, alerting, and developer productivity systems, and for ensuring that critical internal and production services are correctly instrumented and monitored. We are only interested in candidates with strong fundamentals, sound judgment, and the ability to operate with rigor in a production environment where failures matter.

## Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and maintain observability and alerting systems across critical services and infrastructure
- Ensure all production and internal services are properly instrumented with metrics, logs, and traces
- Own and maintain developer productivity tools, CI/CD systems, and internal platforms
- Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents with urgency and discipline
- Lead incident reviews and drive long-term reliability improvements
- Automate operational workflows to reduce manual toil and improve system resilience

## Basic Qualifications

- Strong fundamentals in web service development and distributed systems
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, DNS, TLS/certificate management, and HTTP
- Experience operating and debugging production systems
- Familiarity with observability tools (metrics, logging, alerting) and incident response
- Ability to write clear, maintainable code and automation scripts
- Demonstrated ownership, attention to detail, and sound technical judgment

## Preferred Skills and Experience

- Experience with modern observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog)
- Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and infrastructure-as-code
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling at scale
- Experience supporting safety-critical or high-reliability systems
- Strong debugging skills across application, OS, and network boundaries
- Prior on-call experience in a production environment

Additional Requirements:

- Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.
- Ability to come into our office every day. This role is 100% on site and in person.
- Currently a US Citizen with capability to obtain and maintain a US Q clearance.

## Equal Opportunity Employer

General Matter is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with General Matter is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

## Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range for this role is $100,000–$200,000 annually.

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. Please note that the stated salary range is an estimate and may be adjusted based on market conditions, business needs, or other factors. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

## About General Matter

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Nuclear energy – uranium enrichment, nuclear fuel supply chain
- **Target customers**: Nuclear power plant operators (civilian reactors, small modular reactors, microreactors), data center operators, industrial manufacturers, and government/defense entities
- **Mission**: “Restore US leadership in nuclear fuel” and “make the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable” [generalmatter.com/mission](https://generalmatter.com/mission/)

## Products & Services
- **Low Enriched Uranium (LEU)**: Enrichment of uranium to 3-5% U-235 for existing US civilian reactors (supplying ~20% of US grid power)
- **High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU)**: Enrichment to 5-20% U-235 for next-generation small modular reactors (SMRs) and microreactors
- **Enrichment as a Service**: Novel, scalable, cost-competitive enrichment technology to fill the critical gap in the US nuclear fuel cycle (conversion → enrichment → deconversion/fabrication)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Currently hiring for 64+ roles across engineering, construction, legal, and operations; actively building enrichment capacity
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Described as backed by “institutions” and “generational companies” – specific names not publicly available [generalmatter.com/careers](https://generalmatter.com/careers/)
- **Growth Signals**: Aggressive hiring across multiple disciplines; establishing a physical presence in Los Angeles (HQ) and Paducah, Kentucky (construction/manufacturing); addressing a critical national security gap (US currently performs <1% of global enrichment)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Domestic enrichment technology**: Novel, proprietary enrichment process designed to be cheaper, more reliable, and scalable compared to foreign state-backed competitors
- **National security moat**: Sole US-focused enrichment startup aiming to break dependence on Russian and Chinese supply chains
- **Talent pool**: Attracts high-caliber individuals from nuclear engineering, technology, finance, and special operations backgrounds
- **First-mover in HALEU**: Positioned to fuel the next wave of advanced reactors and behind-the-meter power for AI data centers

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale domestic enrichment capacity**: Build and operate enrichment facilities in the US (Los Angeles and Paducah)
- **Support AI and manufacturing growth**: Provide reliable, emissions-free baseload power for compute and industrial expansion
- **Enable advanced reactors**: Supply HALEU for SMRs and microreactors, opening new markets in remote and austere environments
- **Strengthen US energy independence**: Restore US leadership in nuclear fuel production

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High standards, extreme ownership, copious autonomy, deep trust, zero politics – described as “work with the best across nuclear, tech and finance” [generalmatter.com/careers](https://generalmatter.com/careers/)
- **Work environment**: On-site roles in Los Angeles, CA (engineering, nuclear, legal) and Paducah, KY (construction, procurement); no remote/hybrid options explicitly stated
- **Notable perks**: Mission-driven work with national impact; opportunity to solve a critical energy and security challenge; flat organization with high agency
- **Engineering culture**: Emphasis on control systems, embedded software, simulation, DevOps, and nuclear safety engineering; also seeks creative minds and numbers savants

## Sources
1. [generalmatter.com](https://generalmatter.com/)
2. [generalmatter.com/careers](https://generalmatter.com/careers/)
3. [generalmatter.com/mission](https://generalmatter.com/mission/)
4. [generalmatter.com/technology](https://generalmatter.com/technology/)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalmatter](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/generalmatter)

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