Software Dev Senior Engineer
Core
Own the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of Cloud-based services, defining reliability standards and building systems to keep production infrastructure healthy.
Role type
Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Database focus)
Builds
Cloud-based services, observability platforms, and automated operational tooling
Domain
Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, Database Systems
Required skills
Database scaling and performance optimization, High Availability (HA) design and failover strategies, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, Cloud platform management (GCP), Database capacity planning, Observability stack design, Chaos engineering, Incident response management, Infrastructure as Code, Scripting (Python/Shell), Kubernetes, Distributed systems networking
Preferred skills
Google SRE principles, HTTP protocol and distributed latency diagnosis, Automated deployment instrumentation, Customer-facing production issue resolution, Cross-functional team collaboration, Terraform/AWS CDK, Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog/OpenTelemetry, PagerDuty/OpsGenie
Technologies
GCP, CloudSQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS CDK, Python, Shell, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, PagerDuty, OpsGenie
Responsibilities
Lead 24x7 on-call response and triage for service degradation, Define and refine SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical services, Own error management practices including monitoring and alerting, Design and implement comprehensive observability platforms, Drive toil reduction through automation, Design and execute chaos engineering programs, Lead blameless postmortem culture and incident retrospectives, Build and optimize on-call incident response processes, Collaborate with developers on production readiness reviews, Champion SRE best practices across the organization, Mentor team members on SRE philosophy and cloud engineering, Participate in roadmap planning and technology evaluation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities
