Position Purpose:
The Senior Reliability Engineer is responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our systems and applications. As a Senior Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with a team of engineers to build and maintain reliable infrastructure and systems. You will also assist in tool selection, configuration, security, resilience, performance tuning, and production monitoring.
Senior Reliability Engineers contribute to foundational infrastructure elements and system-related documentation. You will play a key role in the reliability team and are expected to mentor and support junior engineers.
Key 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
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
This position typically reports to Software Engineer Manager or Sr. Manager
This position has 0 Direct Reports
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Minimum Qualifications:
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
3-5 years of relevant work experience
Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible
Extensive experience managing Google Cloud Platform projects and services including infrastructure, Compute, Developer Tools, Security and Identity
Experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
Familiarity with both Unix and Windows operating systems
Experience with security frameworks for user and services authorization and authentication
Experience in creating and executing unit, functional, destructive, and performance tests
Experience with modern debugging and root cause analysis techniques
Experience with version control systems
Experience in designing systems for High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Performance, Efficiency, and Security
Operational support experience with a focus on system reliability
Ability to share knowledge across engineering functions
Strong communication and collaboration skills with experience writing documentation, providing peer tutelage, providing consultative services, and presenting technical solutions and training to both technical and non-technical audiences
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Competencies:
Global Perspective
Manages Ambiguity
Nimble Learning
Self-Development
Collaborates
Cultivates Innovation
Situational Adaptability
Communicates Effectively
Drives Results
Interpersonal Savvy
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
Apply End Date: 06/10/2025