Software Engineer II, Site Reliability Engineering, Labs SRE

United States Digital Space LLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale, fault-tolerant systems in our Cloud environment. You will focus on reliability, uptime, and performance, while enabling rapid improvement and automation.

Join a diverse team that values curiosity and collaboration, ships with a culture of learning, and offers mentorship as you tackle complex scale challenges and advance our platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of software development experience in at least one programming language from coursework, internships, or Open Source.
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

Skills

Software development

Data structures

Algorithms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 1 year of experience with software development in one or more programming languages during coursework/projects, research, internships, or practical experience in school, work, or Open Source projects.
• 1 year of experience with data structures and algorithms.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.

About the job

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. SRE ensures that the company Cloud's services—both our internally critical and our externally-visible systems—have reliability, uptime appropriate to customer's needs and a fast rate of improvement. Additionally SRE’s will keep an ever-watchful eye on our systems capacity and performance.

Much of our software development focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. On the SRE team, you’ll have the opportunity to manage the complex challenges of scale which are unique to the company Cloud, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity analysis and large-scale system design. SRE's culture of intellectual curiosity, problem solving and openness is key to its success. Our organization brings together people with a wide variety of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We encourage them to collaborate, think big and take risks in a blame-free environment. We promote self-direction to work on meaningful projects, while we also strive to create an environment that provides the support and mentorship needed to learn and grow. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of the company platforms, we make the company's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Write product or system development code.
• Review code developed by other engineers and provide feedback to ensure best practices (e.g., style guidelines, checking code in, accuracy, testability, and efficiency).
• Contribute to existing documentation or educational content and adapt content based on product/program updates and user feedback.
• Triage product or system issues and debug/track/resolve by analyzing the sources of issues and the impact on hardware, network, or service operations and quality.
• Participate in, or lead design reviews with peers and stakeholders to decide amongst available technologies.

The company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also the company's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.