Senior SRE: AI-Driven Global Platform Reliability

Block; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Block is seeking an experienced engineer to join the SRE team. This role focuses on improving the reliability of Block's critical platform infrastructure and requires a mindset oriented towards metrics and systems.

The successful candidate will work with technologies like Kotlin, Terraform, and AWS. Responsibilities include enhancing system reliability and leading incident management events. The position fosters an environment for growth and curiosity within engineering.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience running production oncall for high-availability systems.
• Comfort with vendor/dependency management.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend platforms to improve system reliability.
• Work on team goals that encompass reliability for the entire company.
• Drive platform-wide reliability improvements.

Skills

Systems-oriented mindset

Incident management skills

CI/CD pipeline fluency

Strong technical initiative

Monitoring & observability expertise

Tools

Kotlin

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

DataDog

Job description

Block is seeking an experienced engineer to join the SRE team. This role focuses on improving the reliability of Block's critical platform infrastructure and requires a mindset oriented towards metrics and systems.

The successful candidate will work with technologies like Kotlin, Terraform, and AWS. Responsibilities include enhancing system reliability and leading incident management events. The position fosters an environment for growth and curiosity within engineering.