Software Engineer 4
Job Summary
The Software Engineer will lead a dynamic team responsible for ensuring our critical systems' reliability, performance, and efficiency.
This role involves a strategic blend of engineering and operations and requires a strong background in software development, systems engineering, and leadership. This is a pivotal role in our operations, demanding a dedicated individual who excels in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
We invite you to apply if you are driven by system reliability and ready to lead a high-performing team.
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of Engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to design and implement scalable solutions.
- Develop and maintain a reliable monitoring and alerting system to detect and mitigate issues proactively.
- Handle incidents to reduce TTM and TTR consistently
- Participate and lead post-mortem analyses to prevent future outages.
- Manage priorities, projects, and the overall workflow of the SRE team.
- Ensure compliance with security best practices and company policies.
- Stay ahead of industry trends and emerging technologies to improve system reliability and performance continuously.
- Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure.
- Excellent communication and team-building skills.
Job Requirements
- 10 years of experience in Software Development, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or similar roles, with at least 5 years in a lead and/or architect position.
- This role will be a mix of all 3: Backend Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps practices.
- Experience mentoring geographically dispersed teams.
- Recommend the appropriate technological approach, team structures, and skill sets
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, or Java.
- Extensive experience with cloud services (AWS, GCP, Azure) and container orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and Configuration Management (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform)
- Deliver architectural initiatives that drive and improve efficiency in line with business strategy.
- Familiarity with distributed systems design patterns using tools such as Kubernetes.
- Exceptional knowledge of observability tools and setting up architecture for proactive monitoring of the product.
- Experience in setting up SLOs & SLIs.
- Proven track record of designing and implementing scalable, high-availability systems.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field; Master’s preferred.
All internal movements within the Product Group via requisition will be lateral, offering valuable growth opportunities to extend your skills in a new area. Opportunities for a promotion will be reviewed in the normal course of business, aligned with our promotion process.
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