Site Reliability Engineering Lead, Specialist
About the role
We are seeking an experienced engineer with broad, end-to-end software development experience, including operating applications in a microservices environment in production at scale. This role goes beyond feature implementation – it requires someone who can design, build, and support resilient systems from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Improve resiliency engineering practices across platforms and applications, including resilient application design patterns, system observability and deployment strategies
- Incident detection, troubleshooting, and resolution
- Develop automation for incident response and infrastructure management
- Develop and support OpenTelemetry integrations for multiple application platforms (browser, ECS, lambda, etc) and languages (JavaScript, Java)
- Contribute to architectural decisions and support implementation of solutions
Qualifications
- Expertise in JavaScript (server-side and client-side execution environments) or Java
- Working knowledge of Python (or similar scripting language)
- Strong knowledge of resiliency engineering techniques for both platforms and applications
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and implementing effective mitigations
- Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry specification and core APIs
- Practical experience developing and operating software in distributed systems environments
Skills
- Expertise in JavaScript (server-side and client-side execution environments) or Java
- Working knowledge of Python (or similar scripting language)
- Strong knowledge of resiliency engineering techniques for both platforms and applications
- Experience troubleshooting complex production issues and implementing effective mitigations
- Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with OpenTelemetry specification and core APIs
- Practical experience developing and operating software in distributed systems environments
Benefits
Vanguard is an equal opportunity employer. Vanguard is committed to providing all crew members a working environment that is free from discrimination, prejudice and bias. Through this Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy, Vanguard reaffirms its commitment to equal employment opportunity for all applicants and crew members without regard to race, color, national origin or ancestry, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, veteran or military status. In addition, Vanguard prohibits discrimination based on genetic information, as well as any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
Pay
Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.
Schedule
The work model is Hybrid.