Remote Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Scale & Observability

Branch; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 175,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Stock Options

Wellness Subscription

Home-office Stipend

401k Plan

Parental Leave

Flexible Time Off

Company Holidays

Job summary

Branch is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, performance, scalability, capacity, and observability improvements across our platform through automation and tooling. You will enhance software development and deployment lifecycles and codify technical best practices.

Join Branch to build robust Java/Spring Boot services in production, define SLIs/SLOs, and optimize latency and health while collaborating with cross-functional teams across the US.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience required.
• 3+ years experience in site reliability engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience building and operating Java / Spring Boot services in production.
• Experience with Terraform, Go, Java, Gradle, Docker, OpenTelemetry and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Developers to produce high-performing and robust services through rigorous testing and release procedures.
• Design infrastructure, monitoring, processes, and standards for systems and applications.
• Support services through design, development, load testing, and launch phases.
• Develop, measure, and monitor key performance and service level indicators including availability, latency, and overall system health.
• Define and establish SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets with service owners, and drive adoption across platform teams.
• Profile and optimize platform performance, resilience, and efficiency, including latency, throughput, and capacity planning under load.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Remediate tasks and develop preventative and automated measures to meet SLAs/SLOs/SLIs.
• Manage monitoring services utilized by applications.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Terraform

Go

Gradle

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Go

Java

Gradle

Docker

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Job description

Branch is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to lead reliability, performance, scalability, capacity, and observability improvements across our platform through automation and tooling. You will enhance software development and deployment lifecycles and codify technical best practices.

Join Branch to build robust Java/Spring Boot services in production, define SLIs/SLOs, and optimize latency and health while collaborating with cross-functional teams across the US.