Site Reliability Engineer - Data, Cloud & Developer Experience

The Blackstone Group L.P.; Bethpage (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health benefits

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Discretionary bonuses

Job summary

The Blackstone Group L.P. in Bethpage, NY is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability of systems and services. This role requires strong collaboration with development teams, and expertise in automation and observability tools.

The position offers a competitive salary range of $140,000 – $225,000 and includes comprehensive health benefits, paid time off, and additional perks for employees.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Platform Engineering.
• Automation scripting skills (Python, C#, Typescript).
• Strong AWS experience, preferred Azure experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the adoption of SRE methodologies.
• Implement observability standards into deployment pipelines.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents.

Skills

Infrastructure Engineering

DevOps Engineering

Python

AWS

Docker

Incident Management

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Grafana

Prometheus

Job description

Role Overview

Blackstone’s Site Reliability Engineering team is responsible for improving the reliability of systems and services to meet the needs of the business. This is achieved through collaboration with development and engineering teams to leverage SRE practices and principles. You will identify and solve new problems as they arise, deploy and maintain observability systems and pipelines, enhance operations and support for services and platforms, and pursue emerging opportunities for efficiency and business value. The position involves the selection, implementation, and maintenance of key observability tooling and ongoing evaluation of the firm's needs in observability, monitoring, alerting, resilience, and recovery.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership in the understanding and adoption of SRE methodologies across the firm


• Incorporate observability standards into code and deployment pipelines


• Evolve the SRE standards that are adopted across all teams


• Partner with colleagues in various roles and reporting lines to improve service reliability and operational efficiency


• Assist developers and engineers directly and through AI assistants


• Implement instrumentation and provide comprehensive performance insights to service owners


• Ensure monitoring and alerting reflects the reliability of services for users and enables effective on-call operations


• Implement strategic observability tools and work to control overhead in maintenance and cost


• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to system incidents to ensure service availability and minimize operational impact


• Use automation to manage, maintain, and scale SRE systems with minimal human intervention


• Foster a blameless team culture while assisting in postmortem discussions and reporting

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience with Infrastructure Engineering, Software Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Platform Engineering


• Automation script‑writing skills and effective code troubleshooting (Python, C#, Typescript, etc.)


• Effective use of coding assistants and chat models (Anthropic, OpenAI)


• Proficiency with public cloud providers (strong AWS experience required, preferred Azure experience)


• Configuration‑as‑code, infrastructure management, and CI/CD tooling experience (Terraform, Puppet, Gitlab CI)


• Hands‑on experience with Docker and container schedulers, including AWS ECS & EKS


• Excellent troubleshooting skills for Linux and Windows, and networking experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, etc.)


• Comfortable under pressure with incident management and collaborating during post‑mortems


• Excellent communication and organizational skills


• Curiosity and motivation to improve systems and processes through a sense of shared ownership

Salary and Benefits

Expected annual base salary range: $140,000 – $225,000. Actual base salary within that range will be determined by several components, including but not limited to experience, skills, and job location. For roles located outside the U.S., the posted salary bands are not applicable; compensation follows local market comparables.

• Comprehensive health benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and FSA


• Paid time off


• Life insurance


• 401(k) plan


• Discretionary bonuses


• Potential equity and other incentive compensation at Blackstone’s sole discretion

Additional Note

The duties and responsibilities described here are not exhaustive; additional assignments, duties, or responsibilities may be required of this position and may be changed at any time, with or without notice, by Blackstone in its sole discretion.

Licensing Requirements

Depending on the position, you may be required to obtain certain securities licenses if you are in a client‑facing role and/or engaged in activities such as:

• Attending client meetings where you discuss Blackstone products and/or client questions


• Marketing Blackstone funds to new or existing clients


• Supervising or training securities‑licensed employees


• Structuring or creating Blackstone funds/products


• Advising on marketing plans prepared by a sales team or contributing information for marketing materials

Equal Employment Opportunity

Blackstone is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to hiring, placement, promotion, termination, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, and training. All Blackstone employees, including but not limited to recruiting personnel and hiring managers, are required to abide by this policy.