Senior Software Engineer, Reliability Engineering Team

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering team. As a Senior Software Engineer in Production SRE, you will develop and maintain tools and systems that enable our engineering teams to operate our services reliably and at scale.

You will work closely with our SREs and other engineering teams to ensure our services are properly instrumented and able to scale with our growing business.

Your expertise in developing and maintaining tools and systems will be instrumental in bolstering our services' reliability and improving how the company manages incidents broadly.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain tools and systems that support service reliability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure services are designed with reliability in mind, and provide guidance on the appropriate use of tooling and automation.
• Identify opportunities to improve the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our services and drive their implementation.
• Work with infrastructure engineers to understand the challenges they face in operating our services and develop tools and systems to help them manage these challenges.
• Participate in incident response and post-mortems to identify and address systemic issues.
• Continuously evaluate new technologies and industry best practices to improve our SRE tooling and incident response procedures.
• Gain and maintain an intimate understanding of how the critical parts of the site work (services, infrastructure, product, tools, and processes).
• Lead high-urgency incidents and mentor less-experienced engineers in effectively handling incidents.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering or SRE roles, with a focus on large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong coding skills in at least one programming language, such as Java, Python, or Go.
• Experience with distributed systems and service-oriented architectures.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong conviction in software development best practices, including version control, automated testing, and continuous integration and delivery.
• Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with a strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent in English (Professional Level)