Senior SRE: Observability & Reliability Lead

Early Warning; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 207,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Coverage

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Discretionary incentive plan

Job summary

Early Warning is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to design availability and resiliency patterns across applications and infrastructure in a hybrid work environment.

You will partner with development teams to implement scalable microservice architectures, observability, and automation, while leading incident RCA efforts and mentoring engineers. Eligibility to work in the United States is required; visa sponsorship is not offered.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years of related experience managing large complex projects in a technical or software development environment including post-graduate degree.
• Proven ability to lead a team through high priority Incidents and improve the RCA process.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and proven experience resolving technical issues in complex environments.
• Hands-on experience in designing and developing using Python, Go, Java, Docker.
• Experience in Microservices Architecture.
• Messaging frameworks such as Kafka, SQS or JMS.
• Database Technologies like Oracle, DynamoDB, Aurora.
• Caching layers such as Redis and memcached.
• Strong understanding of Linux administration.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline implementation including GIT, Chef, Maven, Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams to create technical solutions.
• Proven track record designing and building complex end-to-end systems (full stack developer).
• Background and drug screen

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software to improve availability, scalability, and latency.
• Build automation around deployments and disaster recovery scenarios.
• Design, Implement and evangelize Observability and monitoring systems.
• Evaluate capacity to provide stats and scale recommendations.
• Identify performance bottlenecks and troubleshoot with cross-functional teams.
• Serve as technical liaison and provide runbooks to support teams.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Champion repeatable patterns and reusable work across teams.
• Collaborate with development teams on microservice design patterns and reliability approaches.
• Mentor team members and be a senior technical lead.

Skills

Python

Go

Java

Docker

Microservices Architecture

Kafka

SQS/JMS

Oracle

DynamoDB

Aurora

Redis

Linux administration

CI/CD tooling

Networking fundamentals

Incidents RCA leadership

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Git

Jenkins

Maven

Chef

Swarm

Oracle

DynamoDB

Aurora

Job description

Early Warning is seeking a Principal Site Reliability Engineer to design availability and resiliency patterns across applications and infrastructure in a hybrid work environment.

You will partner with development teams to implement scalable microservice architectures, observability, and automation, while leading incident RCA efforts and mentoring engineers. Eligibility to work in the United States is required; visa sponsorship is not offered.