Senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE & Platform Reliability)

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Responsibilities

• ▹Own and deliver quarterly goals for the team, leading engineers through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems
• ▹Support peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle, collaborating with infrastructure, product management, developer experience and analytics
• ▹Proactively identify technical solutions and operational processes that strengthen incident readiness, response and post-incident analysis
• ▹Support the operations and availability of the team's artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting on-call efforts
• ▹Foster a culture of quality and ownership by setting or improving code review and design standards
• ▹Help develop talent on the team by providing feedback, guidance and leading by example
• ▹Provide data and visibility to teams and leadership on application performance
• ▹Guide the development of SLOs
• ▹Drive the Incident Management and Analysis process
• ▹Steer the implementation of Change Management and Deployment practices
• ▹Engage in service and architectural conversations
• ▹Recommend observability and alerting configurations

Requirements

• ▹4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using scripting and development languages like Bash, Python or Kotlin
• ▹A track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• ▹4+ years working in a Site Reliability or Production Engineering team
• ▹Experience contributing to or driving parts of the Incident Lifecycle process
• ▹Experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design
• ▹Writes high quality code that is easily understood and used by others

Soft skills

About the company

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