Senior Reliability Engineer: Architect Resilience

Jobtailor; Menomonee Falls (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Kohl’s seeks a skilled SRE/Software Reliability Engineer to enhance system resilience and availability. You will partner with development teams to design robust architectures, implement failover and monitoring strategies, and lead incident response with thorough root-cause analyses.

A strong background in Java/Python/Go, cloud platforms, and IaC is essential. You will drive error budgets and SLO adoption, reduce toil, and mentor engineers while collaborating across product teams to improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in MIS/CS or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, Go, or Node.js.
• Deep knowledge of systems architecture, OS internals, and networks.
• Experience with multi-region troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Experience with at least one cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Experience with monitoring tools (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with IaC (Terraform/OpenTofu).

Responsibilities

• Ensure resilience and availability of Kohl's systems and applications.
• Collaborate with development teams and contribute to architectural designs.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and preventative measures.
• Drive reliability, observability, and automation across product teams.
• Mentor engineers and advocate for best practices in SRE.
• Participate in on-call rotations and blameless retrospectives.
• Identify toil and opportunities for automation and risk reduction.

Skills

Java

Python

Go

Node.js

Systems Architecture

Application Design Patterns

Cloud Platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

Rancher

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

CloudWatch

Grafana

Prometheus

Multi-Region Troubleshooting

Performance Tuning

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in MIS, Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Rancher

Terraform

OpenTofu

Chef

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Kohl’s seeks a skilled SRE/Software Reliability Engineer to enhance system resilience and availability. You will partner with development teams to design robust architectures, implement failover and monitoring strategies, and lead incident response with thorough root-cause analyses.

A strong background in Java/Python/Go, cloud platforms, and IaC is essential. You will drive error budgets and SLO adoption, reduce toil, and mentor engineers while collaborating across product teams to improve