Reliability Engineer Jobs in Colorado
Reliability Engineer jobs in Colorado are concentrated in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder, where aerospace, defense, and energy sectors drive the bulk of demand, from entry-level roles to senior systems engineers. Employers like Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Ball Aerospace have long-established engineering operations across the Front Range and recruit reliability engineers with experience in failure analysis, FMEA, and predictive maintenance. The Colorado market is among the most active in the country for reliability engineering, particularly in defense systems and power infrastructure. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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About DAT
Job Application Deadline: 10/31/2026
The Opportunity
DAT is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE platform team. This position will work hybrid in Denver, CO
Candidate profile
DAT is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help grow our SRE practices. In this role, you will be responsible for contributing to technical initiatives and enhancing your skills. You'll work closely with development teams and platform architects to achieve critical reliability goals and help scale our platform.DAT is actively seeking a highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to play a pivotal role in the expansion and maturation of our SRE practices. In this critical position, the successful candidate will be instrumental in driving key technical initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and significantly enhancing their own professional expertise.
This role necessitates close collaboration with various stakeholders, including our dedicated development teams and platform architects. The primary objective of these partnerships is to collectively achieve ambitious reliability goals and strategically scale our platform to meet evolving growth of the company. The SRE will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of our systems, implementing robust monitoring solutions, automating operational tasks, and proactively identifying and resolving potential issues. This will involve a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and a commitment to best practices in site reliability engineering.
What You'll Do
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and reliable systems. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliability targets are met.
- Identify and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
- Advocate for and implement SRE best practices, including automation, monitoring, and incident response, to enhance system resilience.
- Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning to proactively address potential bottlenecks and support future growth.
- Leverage new AI tools to assist with coding and observability tasks.
- Assist and respond to critical engineering incidents.
- Improve your engineering skills within the SRE team.
- Provide technical guidance and best practices for use of cloud infrastructure and tooling. Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code within the platform. We strive to automate all the things!
- Contribute to reliability-focused initiatives and projects.
- Help optimize our work to be customer-focused. Continually seek feedback from our customers on how we can improve.
- Assist in migrating legacy systems to modern, scalable cloud environments.
- Help develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement with the Platform Engineering and Software Engineering groups.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
The Skills and Experience You'll Bring
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities, especially within SRE or Platform Engineering/Infrastructure teams.
- Total of 2 to 4+ years industry experience
- At least 1 year of software engineering experience (JavaScript, Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, C++, etc)
- Experience with modern observability tools (Datadog preferred).
- Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
- Demonstrated success in contributing to large technical initiatives and acting as a driving force to complete those initiatives.
- Proven experience assisting in modernizing legacy code and infrastructure.
- Ability to work closely with peer teams, platform/software architects and management to drive key reliability improvements.
- Willingness to share your expertise among team members and others within the engineering organization. We value upleveling our peers however we can.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and best practices for reliability.
- Experience with our tools (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Github Actions) a plus.
Why DAT?
DAT is an award winning employer of choice.
For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We've been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado's 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
- An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
- 401k matching (immediately vested)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
- Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
- Collaborative and supportive team culture
- Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
- Employee Resource Groups
*This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**
For Colorado-based candidates, in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this role is $95,000.00 - $134,000.00 + target bonus. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.
DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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About DAT
Job Application Deadline: 10/31/2026
The Opportunity
DAT is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to join our SRE platform team. This position will work hybrid in Denver, CO
Candidate profile
DAT is seeking an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to help grow our SRE practices. In this role, you will be responsible for contributing to technical initiatives and enhancing your skills. You'll work closely with development teams and platform architects to achieve critical reliability goals and help scale our platform.DAT is actively seeking a highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to play a pivotal role in the expansion and maturation of our SRE practices. In this critical position, the successful candidate will be instrumental in driving key technical initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, and significantly enhancing their own professional expertise.
This role necessitates close collaboration with various stakeholders, including our dedicated development teams and platform architects. The primary objective of these partnerships is to collectively achieve ambitious reliability goals and strategically scale our platform to meet evolving growth of the company. The SRE will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of our systems, implementing robust monitoring solutions, automating operational tasks, and proactively identifying and resolving potential issues. This will involve a deep understanding of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and a commitment to best practices in site reliability engineering.
What You'll Do
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and reliable systems. Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure reliability targets are met.
- Identify and troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance.
- Advocate for and implement SRE best practices, including automation, monitoring, and incident response, to enhance system resilience.
- Participate in capacity planning and performance tuning to proactively address potential bottlenecks and support future growth.
- Leverage new AI tools to assist with coding and observability tasks.
- Assist and respond to critical engineering incidents.
- Improve your engineering skills within the SRE team.
- Provide technical guidance and best practices for use of cloud infrastructure and tooling. Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code within the platform. We strive to automate all the things!
- Contribute to reliability-focused initiatives and projects.
- Help optimize our work to be customer-focused. Continually seek feedback from our customers on how we can improve.
- Assist in migrating legacy systems to modern, scalable cloud environments.
- Help develop and drive a culture of continuous improvement with the Platform Engineering and Software Engineering groups.
- Participate in an on-call rotation.
The Skills and Experience You'll Bring
- Strong collaboration and problem-solving abilities, especially within SRE or Platform Engineering/Infrastructure teams.
- Total of 2 to 4+ years industry experience
- At least 1 year of software engineering experience (JavaScript, Python, Go, Java/Kotlin, C++, etc)
- Experience with modern observability tools (Datadog preferred).
- Experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS).
- Demonstrated success in contributing to large technical initiatives and acting as a driving force to complete those initiatives.
- Proven experience assisting in modernizing legacy code and infrastructure.
- Ability to work closely with peer teams, platform/software architects and management to drive key reliability improvements.
- Willingness to share your expertise among team members and others within the engineering organization. We value upleveling our peers however we can.
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure, automation, and best practices for reliability.
- Experience with our tools (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Terraform, Github Actions) a plus.
Why DAT?
DAT is an award winning employer of choice.
For starters, we have a hybrid work environment, but we also know what makes a great workplace. We have a time-tested and resolute set of operating values predicated on integrity, mutual respect, open communication, and executing with excellence. These values inform our strategic vision as much as any one of our products does. We've been an employer of choice in the Portland metropolitan area for four decades, and within one year of opening our Denver office, DAT was #26 on Built In Colorado's 100 Best Places to Work In Colorado.
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and AD&D insurance
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Vacation Time (FVT)
- An additional 10 holidays of paid time off per calendar year
- 401k matching (immediately vested)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Short- and Long-term disability sick leave
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Employee Assistance Program
- Additional programs - Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
- Free TriMet transit pass (Beaverton Office)
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Work on impactful projects in a cutting-edge environment
- Collaborative and supportive team culture
- Opportunity to make a real difference in the trucking industry
- Employee Resource Groups
*This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship**
For Colorado-based candidates, in compliance with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, the salary range for this role is $95,000.00 - $134,000.00 + target bonus. DAT considers factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education and training, core skills, internal equity, and market and business elements when extending an offer.
DAT embraces the value of a diverse workforce, and believes it is a core strength of our company that we encourage those values in every DAT employee, at every level of our organization, regardless of tenure or rank. We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
#LI-RF1
#LI-hybrid
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What Colorado Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in reliability engineer jobs across Colorado.
- Bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, or systems engineering from an accredited program
- Proficiency with reliability analysis tools such as FMEA, FRACAS, or fault tree analysis
- Experience with MIL-HDBK-217 or similar reliability prediction standards for defense or aerospace applications
- Familiarity with predictive maintenance methods including vibration analysis and thermography
- Active or eligible Secret security clearance for defense and government contractor roles in Colorado
- Professional Engineer license issued or recognized in Colorado preferred for senior engineering positions
Reliability Engineer Jobs in Colorado: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a reliability engineer in Colorado?
Most reliability engineer roles in Colorado require a bachelor's degree in mechanical, electrical, systems, or industrial engineering. Colorado does not mandate a state-issued license to work as a reliability engineer, but many senior and government contractor positions strongly prefer or require a Professional Engineer license issued by the Colorado State Board of Licensure for Architects, Professional Engineers, and Professional Land Surveyors. Certifications like the Certified Reliability Engineer from the American Society for Quality strengthen your candidacy considerably in the Colorado market.
Which companies hire reliability engineers in Colorado?
Employers hiring reliability engineers in Colorado right now include Vertafore, Todyl, and MongoDB, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Colorado's heavy concentration of aerospace and defense contractors along the Front Range means many of these employers require or prefer candidates who can obtain a security clearance.
Which Colorado cities have the most reliability engineer jobs?
Denver, Aurora, and Colorado Springs account for the most reliability engineer openings in Colorado. Denver anchors the market through its large aerospace and energy employer base, while Colorado Springs draws significant demand from defense contractors and military installations like Peterson Space Force Base, and Boulder attracts roles tied to research institutions and technology companies clustered around the university corridor.
Are there remote reliability engineer jobs in Colorado?
Yes, but they're rare. Reliability engineering is inherently hands-on work involving physical systems, test equipment, and site inspections, which limits full remote arrangements. About 75% of reliability engineer openings tied to Colorado are remote or hybrid as of September 2026, and those positions tend to concentrate in the data analysis, documentation, and systems modeling portions of the role rather than field or lab work.
How can I get hired as a reliability engineer in Colorado with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is applying to associate or junior reliability engineer roles at Colorado's large aerospace and defense employers, where structured rotation and early-career programs exist specifically for new graduates. Companies like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon operate early-career engineering programs at their Colorado facilities that place candidates without direct reliability experience into supporting roles alongside senior engineers. Candidates who transition from adjacent positions such as quality engineer, manufacturing engineer, or maintenance technician are consistently competitive. Pursuing a Certified Reliability Engineer certification early and building coursework in FMEA or reliability modeling gives you a measurable edge in Colorado applications.
Where can I find and apply to reliability engineer jobs in Colorado?
You can find and apply to reliability engineer jobs in Colorado on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers across the state. Search the roles that match your background, level, and preferred location, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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