Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for applying software engineering practices to operations at scale.
• Monitor and report on service-level objectives and establish key performance indicators with business and product owners.
• Conduct technical training, game-day scenarios, and engineering spikes.
• Design and architect operational solutions that increase automation, repeatability, and consistency.
• Create and maintain monitoring technologies and processes to improve application performance and business-metric visibility.
• Promote healthy software development practices and test application and infrastructure resiliency under varied error conditions.
• Partner with security engineers to develop plans and automation for responding safely to risks and vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with internal and feature/service-oriented development teams to meet business requirements.
• Guide software development on resiliency, efficiency, performance, and cost optimization.
• Develop and monitor standard processes that support sustainable operational development.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, MIS, or a related discipline.
• Relevant software development or architecture experience.
• Hands-on DevOps or systems administration experience.
• Experience building and supporting cloud-based solutions and mission-critical production applications.
• Experience with at least one of C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl, or Ruby.
• Knowledge of algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis, and software design.
• Experience with configuration management and deployment automation tools such as Chef, Terraform, Puppet, or Ansible.
• Experience administering Windows and Linux systems.
• Knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including QA and beta environments.
• Proficiency in cloud computing and on-premises infrastructure concepts.
• Understanding of infrastructure platforms, Agile development, and production change management.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, ownership, and execution skills.

Nice to Have

• Azure cloud infrastructure and services experience.
• Virtualization and container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS.
• Troubleshooting experience across web servers, Java application platforms, operating systems, network components, virtualization technologies, and databases.
• Advanced Linux knowledge, including kernel compilation, syscall tracing, TCP, and init systems.
• Open-source software knowledge or contribution experience.

Compensation

• Annual salary: $150,000–$172,000 USD.