Senior Site Reliability Engineer responsible for improving cloud service reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. The role involves operating highly available distributed systems, building monitoring and alerting, creating runbooks, improving engineering processes, advocating for reliability practices, collaborating across platform and product teams, and mentoring engineers. The position requires extensive programming, public cloud, production operations, and communication experience, with GCP expertise strongly emphasized.
Site Reliability Engineering | Bengaluru, India | Remote, Remote
We are looking for a reliability expert who is passionate about scaling Cloud services to join our growing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. You are someone who is aware of current industry trends (particularly those related to reliability) and who values working with a diverse set of partners, who can articulate the business impact of a problem and can also dive deep into the technical solution.
We'd love it if you brought a deep understanding of modern Cloud infrastructure, programming expertise, operational experience and a desire to change the status quo.
We're looking for an engineer who can analyse and help improve our services and processes to get us to an even higher level of reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. You'll achieve this by crossing team and functional boundaries to advocate for reliability methodologies and will work with a variety of platform, product and SRE teams to both build reliability into our platform and drive adoption of those practices into our products. In other words, you'll be the driving force for change! You will report to a regional Senior Engineering Manager in SRE.
We'll expect you to have:
It would be great, but not mandatory if you had:
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We are looking for a reliability expert who is passionate about scaling Cloud services to join our growing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. You are someone who is aware of current industry trends (particularly those related to reliability) and who values working with a diverse set of partners, who can articulate the business impact of a problem and can also dive deep into the technical solution.
We'd love it if you brought a deep understanding of modern Cloud infrastructure, programming expertise, operational experience and a desire to change the status quo.
We're looking for an engineer who can analyse and help improve our services and processes to get us to an even higher level of reliability, performance, scalability, and cost efficiency. You'll achieve this by crossing team and functional boundaries to advocate for reliability methodologies and will work with a variety of platform, product and SRE teams to both build reliability into our platform and drive adoption of those practices into our products. In other words, you'll be the driving force for change! You will report to a regional Senior Engineering Manager in SRE.
We'll expect you to have:
- Expert-level proficiency with 10+ years experience in one or more prominent languages such as Java, Go or Python.
- Expert-level proficiency with 7+ years experience in public cloud offerings (with at least 2+ years specifically on GCP).
- Expert-level proficiency with 7+ years experience in operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production: building monitoring into your code, tweaking dashboards, defining alerts, writing runbooks, etc.
- Excellent communication skills in written and verbal forms, and an ability to communicate complex technical issues to a range of technical and non-technical audiences (management, peers, clients).
- An ability and desire to mentor and coach engineers.
It would be great, but not mandatory if you had:
- Experience in datastores (RDBMS, time-series-database, NoSql, search, analytics).
- Experience in microservice architecture.
- Experience building web-services and clients using REST/GraphQL.
- Expertise in JVM, Garbage Collection, and Performance Tuning.
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