Cloud Messaging SRE: Kubernetes Ops & Resilience

Alibaba Cloud; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 104,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

Alibaba Cloud is seeking a Reliability Engineer for its Cloud Product Operations & Reliability team in Sunnyvale. The role focuses on stability, performance tuning, and high-availability design for messaging middleware and cloud services.

You will manage Kubernetes-based deployments, automations, and disaster recovery workflows. The ideal candidate has 2+ years in distributed systems reliability, proficiency in Python/Go/Java, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm.

Qualifications

• Over 2 years of experience in distributed systems reliability engineering.
• Familiar with high-availability architecture design.
• Proficient in Python, Go, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Oversee stability maintenance, performance tuning, and HA design for cloud middleware.
• Manage containerized middleware lifecycles on Kubernetes clusters (deployments, auto-scaling, upgrades).
• Lead incident response, RCA efforts, and log tracing for production issues.
• Develop diagnostic tools in Python/Go to resolve bottlenecks and compatibility challenges.
• Build automation tools (Python/Go/Shell) and IaC workflows to standardize deployment and DR.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Java

Distributed systems

Terraform

Tools

Helm

Operator

Job description

Alibaba Cloud is seeking a Reliability Engineer for its Cloud Product Operations & Reliability team in Sunnyvale. The role focuses on stability, performance tuning, and high-availability design for messaging middleware and cloud services.

You will manage Kubernetes-based deployments, automations, and disaster recovery workflows. The ideal candidate has 2+ years in distributed systems reliability, proficiency in Python/Go/Java, and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm.