Senior Service Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities

• Taking a leadership role in ongoing improvements in Reliability and Scalability
• Work closely with SRE Management to define KPIs, processes and drive continuous improvement
• Influence the architecture and implementation of solutions within the division
• Mentor more junior SRE staff and enable them for success
• Act as a voice to represent SRE in the wider organization
• Represent the operational scalability of solutions in the wider division
• Lead small-scale projects from inception to implementation
• Design platform-wide solutions and provide technical leadership during their implementation
• Showcase a high-level of organizational skills and initiative in the role

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years working experience in Software Development and/or Linux Systems Administration role.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent expereince
• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills
• Available to be scheduled in on-call rotation
• Proficient as a Linux Production Systems Engineer, with experience managing large scale Web Services infrastructure
• Development experience in one or more of the following programming languages: Python (preferred), Bash, Go, Java, C++, or Rust
• Experience with at least 3 of the following topics: Distributed data storage at scale (Hadoop, Ceph), NoSQL at scale (MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra), Data Aggregation technologies. (ElasticSearch, Kafka), Scaling and running traditional RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL) with High Availability Monitoring & Alerting (Prometheus, Grafana), and Incident Management toolsets, Kubernetes and/or AWS (deployment and management), Software Distribution (Package management and distribution at scale), Configuration Management (ansible, saltstack, puppet, chef), S/W Performance analysis and load testing (QA or SDET experience: a plus)