Senior Site Reliability Engineer

About the role

A growing company is looking for a reliability expert passionate about scaling cloud services to join its Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams. The role reports to a regional Senior Engineering Manager in SRE and works across platform, product and SRE teams to build reliability into the platform and drive adoption of reliability practices in products.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse and improve services and processes to raise reliability, performance, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Advocate for reliability methodologies and cross team and functional boundaries.
• Work with platform, product and SRE teams to embed reliability in the platform and products.
• Communicate complex technical issues to management, peers and clients, and mentor and coach engineers.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in one or more prominent languages such as Java, Go or Python.
• 7+ years of experience with public cloud offerings, including at least 2 years on GCP.
• 7+ years of experience operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable distributed software in production, including monitoring, dashboards, alerts and runbooks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Desire to mentor and coach engineers.

Required skills

• Java, Go or Python
• GCP
• Monitoring, alerting and runbooks
• Nice to have: datastores (RDBMS, time-series, NoSQL, search, analytics), microservices, REST/GraphQL, JVM, garbage collection and performance tuning