Senior Software Engineer - Platform Reliability Engineering

Role Summary

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Position Purpose

As a Senior Software Reliability Engineer on the Platform Reliability Engineering team, you will ensure the resilience, performance, and security of our enterprise Cloud Platform, working alongside partner RE and Enablement teams that support our critical Engineering Experience services. As a subject matter expert in Reliability Principles and Practices, you will deliver on RE initiatives, remove toil through automation, mentor junior engineers, lead incident triage, perform root cause analysis, and drive no-repeat resolutions of systemic problems through blameless postmortems and problem management. Your mission is to engineer reliability into our platforms through automation; rigorous change, incident, and problem management; and destructive testing, while establishing and enforcing Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that let product teams build and run customer-facing workloads on highly available, paved-path solutions.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager

This position has 0 Direct Reports

Minimum Years of Work Experience

3

Preferred Years of Work Experience

No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience

None

Preferred Leadership Experience

None

Responsibilities

50% Delivery and Execution - Develops, tests, deploys, and maintains software, with a clear understanding of the value the software is to provide; Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy and enthusiasm; Consistently achieves results, even under tough circumstances; Develops test suites (functional, destructive, etc) to enable success, rapid deployment of code to production; Takes a broad view when approaching issues; using a global lens

20% Learns and Grows - Learns through successful and failed experiment when tackling new problems; Actively seeks ways to grow and be challenged using both formal and informal development channels

20% Plans and Aligns - Collaborates with other team members in agile processes; Creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful; Works the Product Team to ensure user stories are valuable, developer ready, easy to understand and testable; Delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences; Adapts approach and demeanor in real time to match the shifting demands of different situations; Relates openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people

10% Supports and Enables - Helps grow junior engineers by providing guidance on modern software development frameworks, and leading technical discussions

Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications

• 4+ years of relevant work experience in a related engineering field (Systems, Software, Operational) or a reliability engineering domain
• Experience with ITIL processes and the support and maintenance of production systems, including Change, Incident, and Problem Management
• Experience leveraging AI tooling to compress MTTD, MTTM, and MTTR
• Experience with common scripting and programming languages (BASH, Python, Golang, TypeScript, Java) and data serialization and configuration DSLs (YAML, JSON, HCL)
• Experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Experience managing Google Cloud Platform (or equivalent) projects and services, including infrastructure, Compute, Developer Tools, Security, and Identity and Access Management
• Experience with observability and monitoring tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Strong understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes/GKE) and modern microservice architectures
• Familiarity with Unix and Linux operating systems
• Experience with security tooling (Wiz) and frameworks
• Experience designing and executing destructive, performance, and failure-scenario tests, including leading team drills that validate operational readiness
• Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
• Experience with version control systems
• Strong understanding of SLOs and core SRE principles and practices

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience producing operational status communications, real-time reporting to diverse stakeholders, documentation, and peer mentorship

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
• Preferred Education
• No additional education
• Certifications
• None

Competencies

• Global Perspective
• Manages Ambiguity
• Nimble Learning
• Self-Development
• Collaborates
• Cultivates Innovation
• Situational Adaptability
• Communicates Effectively
• Drives Results
• Interpersonal Savvy
• For California, Colorado, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Nevada, New York City, Ithaca (NY), Westchester County (NY), and Washington residents:
• The pay range for this position is between $90,000.00 - $170,000.00
• No travel required.
• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.